1822年至1831年,晚年黑格尔先后五次在柏林大学开设历史哲学课程。其学生爱德华·干斯博士将其整理成有名的《历史哲学》一书,王造时版中文译本为国内学界所熟悉。但干斯博士大部分采用的是最后几次演讲材料。据该书序言所述,第一次演讲时,黑格尔把1/3的时间用在“绪论”和“中国”一章上面。在后来的几次演讲中,中国和印度以及一般东方世界部分减少了,而日耳曼世界部分则得到大幅增加;哲学的和抽象的篇幅逐渐减少,历史材料渐渐 From 1822 to 1831, Hegel, a late age, held five courses of philosophy of history at Berlin University. His student Dr. Edward Gosset organizes it into the famous “Philosophy of History,” a book written in Chinese by Wang Zeshi, familiar to domestic scholars. But Dr. Gusi mostly used the last few speeches. According to the preface to the book, Hegel used one-third of his time in the chapter on Introduction and China in the first speech. In subsequent speeches, China and India, as well as the general East, were partially reduced, while parts of the Germanic world were significantly increased; the number of philosophical and abstract texts gradually decreased and historical materials gradually