IDEAS FILOSÓFICAS DE LA HISTORIA

The most significant expressions of the philosophy of history that have obsessed researchers and inspired hundreds of investigations were perhaps those ideas professed by Georg W. Hegel. In this article some of the Hegelian arguments about history as a rational end are discussed. These ideas, from their formulation, constitute the space for the great discussions of the scholarly world, not only dedicated to speculative philosophy, but also to positivist historiography. The article is divided into three sessions: the first, discusses the philosophical ideas of history; In the second part, the notion of history and its relationship with dialectical historical materialism in Karl Marx are addressed, and in the third part aspects of Walter Benjamin’s work are discussed as a possibility for an emancipatory practice of history in Latin America.