Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "Philosophy of history" -- a novel concept in the early nineteenth century.
The author himself appears to have regarded this book as a.
He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age, fashioned by its antecedents and contemporary circumstances, and serving as a model for the future.
With this work, he created the History of Philosophy as a scientific study.
Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "Philosophy of history" -- a novel concept in the early nineteenth century