t and the "universal ideas and their inner connections...nullifies the past and makes the event present." (Hegel, 7) Both believe that past ideas and stories "belong to the present" (Hegel 7) and are carried over to present day that help the people of the present to grow and find reason. Morals, experience, and enlightenment are not simply from the present or from the individual man, but learned and derived from history and passed on to the present. One difference that Hegel may have is that he believes "one reflective history, therefore, supersedes another." (Hegel 8) Each person has access to the past materials and has the ability to think for themselves and "inject his spirit" into the material, creating material that is his own and therefore passing it on to the next generation.
             In the ninth thesis, Kant states that a philosophical model of a universal history of humans reaching enlightenme
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