ABSTRACT
In the ‘history of consciousness’ of German classical philosophy, Georg Wolfgang Friedrich Hegel found ‘knowledge’ unfolded up to the point at which - in the Absolute - it arrives at insight into the identity of subject and object and, hence at a denial of the opposition between knowing and objecthood. He perceives the state as a representative of the universal facts of social life. He considers personality to be the inner subjective manifestation of freedom and treats the domains of family and civil society as representative of the historical development of the principle of personality. For Hegel, a social class exists as a potentiality for corporate organization and as a distinctive mode of consciousness sifted from participation in the activities of production and exchange. Hegel’s ‘God’ is described as an omniscient, all-encompassing, activist Being who renders himself tangible to human intelligence within historical processes and engineers history in the form of ‘pneumatological’ Providence.
