The history of consciousness and realizing history

The paper deals with G. Hegel's world history concept. The author demonstrates the way Hegel treats human history through the disclosed laws of the development of human consciousness. On the initial stage human an­cestors identified themselves within the scope of their animal Ego which meant eating drinking and copulating. On the second stage they started to reveal their Selves as freed from Ego. To be able to do it they had to de­velop a form of mutual unequal self-consciousness which resulted in the segregation of people for masters and slaves. During the present day stage of total free equal self-consciousness an individual tends to be able to re­veal himself as his free Self. Every individual goes through the above stages of self-consciousness in the proc­ess of personal development.