Wasn't Hegel a Euro-centric writer who saw all non-European cultures as inferior or deficient?

No. Hegel was a "Freedom-centric" writer who would prefer any nation in the world that demonstrated a greater degree of Freedom than the others. Hegel did believe that Europe after the French Revolution had reached, compared with other nations, a higher degree in the consciousness of Freedom than Africa, Central Asia, East Asia and America. Hegel's conviction was based on a deep and thorough study of all available sources in XIXth century Prussia.

It is of course possible to criticise those sources and therefore imply that they were biased and Euro-centric. That was certainly not Hegel's fault. However, it is important to acknowledge that Hegel's philosophy of history was in his own time and context a scientific attempt to analyse the existing world and his historical development.

Being a scientific work, it is possible that some of its conclusions need to be reviewed and corrected, just as Hegel himself would have done (and did, semester after semester, always updating his knowledge ... more.

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