Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The history of philosophy is the history of its errors.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Introduction (Hegel viewed earlier philosophies as necessary stages, not mere errors, but this phrase captures a certain 'corrective' aspect of his own system)

Date / Period

1805-1831 (lectures)

Source

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpintro.htm

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Explanation

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