[SunkenCiv]

Hegel's biggie was "in being, non-being posits itself" and from that produced the concept of the dialectic, which is often attributed to Marx. See, I never thought I'd use that in real life. ;^)

[nwrep]

Thanks. Despite the damage done by him, Hegel is still important, and had some intriguing concepts like Zeitgeist and the “owl of Minerva”.

[Pelham]

“in being, non-being posits itself”

And here I thought The Jabberwocky invented nonsense verbiage.

T’was brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimbel in the wabe

[colorado tanker]

Marx ripped off Hegel's dialectic. Darwin also adapted the dialectic in his theory of the battle for the survival of the fittest. Hegel was very influential to 19th Century intellectuals.

By the end of the 19th Century there seemed to be some validity about the inexorable improvement of mankind. 1914-1945 should have disabused anyone of that notion.