Hegel Against Hegel and His Lumbering of Reason on the African Race

Abstract

One of the scholars that made sustained contributions to the development of philosophy of history is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.   Hegel offers a dialectical conception of history in which the absolute spirit moves towards self-actualization. However, Hegel’s idea of  history appears prejudiced and misguided because he not only derided and battered Africans using his imprudent racial schemes, he even excluded Africa from historical considerations in his uncouth racial agenda. This paper uses the critical analytic model to deleted  ultimately show that not only was Hegel uninformed to comment on the ontology of Africa and Africans, but that even the system was  self-defeating. That is, it was a case of Hegel against Hegel. This is the novelty of this paper since a Hegelian system that is against itself  cannot muster the necessary guts and logic to lampoon and destroy another system, worse still, thoughtlessly and irrationally too. The  paper also argued that the disposition to colour-brand people using racial scheme is uncritical and inhumane.