Hegelovo shvatanje istorije filozofije
Hegel’s Conception of History of Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: Discontinuity with the tradition of interpretation of history of philosophy as an anthology of opinions took place in Hegel’s philosophy. The essence of his standpoint is expressed in thesis that history of philosophy is, by all means, a philosophy. As a movement of the spirit and presentation of his development, philosophy and its history express themselves through what Hegel calls development of concrete. Establishment of history of philosophy such as this is enabled by distinguishing history of outer circumstances from internal history as history of mind. The later is always a result of all previous philosophies, and it preserves them by simultaneously exceeding them. In the same manner that an idea progresses in its logical notion, it also shows its development in history of philosophy. As a reflection of the current level of spirit’s evolution, every philosophy is a product of its own time, and, for that reason, it presents the only possible way of (philosophical) spirit’s existence in that particular moment. Hegel steps out against understanding the difference as contradiction, and indicates that the substance of spirit is actually in the unity of identity and difference. In this way, diversity of philosophies in history of philosophy is explained as indispensable mode of philosophy’s own existence.

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