Abstract
This chapter considers Hegel’s view of world history and of the role the Oriental world played in it, in particular in the Lectures on the Philosophy of History ([1840] 2001), where Hegel describes a “progressive” movement in which protagonists are peoples and especially states. For Hegel, the course of history shows a progressive development of the consciousness of freedom starting from the East, the beginning of proper history, and ending in the German world, which (thanks to Christian religion) is characterized by the consciousness that man, as man, is free. Africa is excluded from the course of history, and America is a probable protagonist of future history, about which however, philosophy cannot yet say anything.
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