This week: Dialectic... Zeitgeist... The end of history. In this vintage episode, John and Ken question the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel with Allen Wood (then of Stanford), author of "Hegel's Ethical Thought" – Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2023-08-25/hegel. | Philosophy Talk

The Hegelian dialectic is a philosophical framework developed by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). At its core, the dialectic is a method for understanding and explaining the development of ideas, history, and social structures. It is based on the interaction of contradictory forces or ideas, which eventually resolve into a new, synthesized outcome. Hegel described this process using a three-stage model: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The thesis represents an