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Help me evaluate Hegel's influence on modern society /his/.
>Progressism
I think, beginning with Augustine, history is no longer seen as collection of events, but as having a purpose. With Hegel, not only that but it is also understood as continually improving.
>the state as peacemaker
Of course with Rousseau we have the general will thing, but specially after Hegel the state is seen as this impersonal conciliator of different interests. Also if some good belongs to the state then it belongs to everyone. A grievous mistake (see "tragedy of the commons"). This allows, for example, Marxists and leftist in general to perpetuate the lie that taking stuff away from the citizens actually means giving it to them.
>the philosopher as court intellectual
So the "philosopher" or intellectual is reduced to a mouthpiece or apologist of the state, since the state is the end all and the means o realize every intellectual authoritarian revenge fantasy such as communism, etc.
What else is there?
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Hegel was a never a big topic on /his/.
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