I thought of you when I read this quote from “Kierkegaard: A Single Life” by Stephen Backhouse –

“One of Hegel’s Big Ideas was that the historical development of art, religion, and philosophy told us something true about the development of the Divine Mind in the universe. The revelation of God was not to be found in a person or a holy text but in the development of a culture’s history. The unfolding Spirit is first encountered in a society’s art. This artistic expression is then given meaning and explanation in that society’s religion. Finally, it is philosophy that explains the religion. The Spirit is ever developing and thus the Divine is revealed in mankind’s highest achievements. To see the latest and best manifestation of the Divine Mind in the world, all one has to do is look at the latest and best manifestation of the world’s civilisation. The reader will be given no prizes for guessing whose art, religion, and philosophy the Western European Hegel thought was currently sitting on the top of the civilizational pile.”

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