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===Hegel<!--linked from 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel'-->===
[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] regarded history as the gradual evolution of Mind as it tests its own concepts against the external world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6188.Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel|title=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> Each time the mind applies its concepts to the world, the concept is revealed to be only partly true, within a certain context; thus the mind continually revises these incomplete concepts so as to reflect a fuller reality (commonly known as the process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis). The individual comes to rise above their own particular viewpoint,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Zovko|first=Jure|s2cid=149279317|date=2018-05-12|title=Hegel's concept of education from the point of view of his idea of 'second nature'|journal=Educational Philosophy and Theory|volume=50|issue=6–7|pages=652–661|doi=10.1080/00131857.2017.1374842|issn=0013-1857}}</ref> and grasps that they are a part of a greater whole<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EYSWG2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1|via=www.amazon.com |title=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic (Cambridge Hegel Translations) |edition=Kindle |last1=Hegel |first1=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich |translator=George Di Giovanni|date=19 August 2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> insofar as they are bound to family, a social context, and/or a political order.