How might Hegelians explain Philosophy after Hegel?
This is hotly debated. • First, people often imply that a newer philosophy is automatically a better philosophy, rightly surpassing the older ones. People sometimes even mistakenly believe that Hegel imself taught this. However, Hegel’s ‘Lectures on the History of Philosophy’ are full of examples where newer Philosophies are not superior to older ones. For example, the whole medieval Philosophers are seen by Hegel as inferior compared to the ancient giants Plato and Aristotle and therefore are little read by him and little given attention in his lectures. A newer Philosopher might enter in a dialogue with the former philosophers and introduce new material not handled by former philosophers, and insofar he is contributing to the advancement of human spirit. However, that does not guarantee that he has understood the older philosophers completely and so an advancement in a particular area (e.g. in understanding of the Christian Religion in the case of the Medieval Philosophers) might be
