Didn Hegel say the modern age is the End of History?
No. In his lectures on the philosophy of history, Hegel never actually mentions the “end” of history. On the contrary, he affirms that “the length of time is something entirely relative, and the element of spirit is eternity. Duration […] cannot be said to belong to it”; this is an evident and clear argument against any hypothesis of an interruption (a stop, an “end”) of the eternal movement of the spirit. For this reason, as expected, Hegel makes often reference in his lectures to the possibility of a further evolution in history. This is the case, famously, for Hegel’s judgment on the development of parliamentarism, where he considers the functioning of modern parliaments (in France) and he observes that the problems arising from it “are that with which history is now occupied, and whose solution it has to work out in the future” (emphasis added). Moreover, in the Introduction of his lectures, contravening to his usual restraint from formulating predictions, Hegel defined America a
