[Vision Thing]

The theory is self refuting, since according to the theory, Hegel's own idea of thesis/antithesis/synthesis must be just another idea in human history subject to the Hegelian dialectic, to be eventually dissolved into a greater synthesis. So Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis can't be an absolute truth.

Never really got into Hegel in college, but did he exempt his dialectic theory from itself?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Never really got into Hegel in college, but did he exempt his dialectic theory from itself? -—

I don’t know if he addressed the problem explicitly.