Hegel
Principles of Hegel
•	There are steps to attaining what he calls the Spirit; the Spirit is Transcendence; a utopia, in other words.
•	Time for Hegel is a dialogic/dialectic (2 forces in opposition, in a Darwinian struggle, one wins out.  There is no peace, though, as another takes its place in the dichotomy.  

•	During this stage, we only see a partial ‘truth’ at any given time (the spirit of the age)
•	Eventually, there will be a cataclysmic event (for Hegel, an ultimate revolution/ final victory.)
•	This will bring about a perfect utopic society/world.
•	Until then, we are in a dialectical, conflict-ridden world.
•	This results in what Hegel calls “master-slave narratives.”

•	Master-slave:  history is written by those with the power
•	Colonial powers vs. their ‘oppressed’ colonies
•	Ex:  Native Americans and the British colonists,  British and India (and everywhere else, for that matter, Spain and the South Americans)
•	My question to you:  Does globalism always occur in these terms?  Can we realistically envision it in any other way?
•	Building of empire=oppression?????