Cunning of Reason

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Core concepts Absolute idealism Cunning of Reason Dialectic End of history Spirit (Geist) Weltgeist Ethical life (Sittlichkeit) Sublation (Aufhebung) Lord–bondsman dialectic
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Schools of thought Absolute idealism German idealism Old (Right) Hegelians Young (Left) Hegelians British idealism Frankfurt School Italian idealism Pragmatism St. Louis Hegelians
People Founder Hegel Old Hegelians Daub Marheineke Rosenkranz Young Hegelians Bauer Engels Feuerbach Hess Marx Ruge Stirner Strauss British Idealists Bosanquet Bradley Green McTaggart Italian Idealists Croce Gentile French Hegelians Hyppolite Kojève Wahl Frankfurt School Adorno Horkheimer Marcuse
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The Cunning of Reason (German: List der Vernunft) is a term coined by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel understands it to mean a process through which a certain purpose is realized in human history that the people involved are not conscious of.