Abstract

The present paper deals with the idea that paying attention to the history of philosophy comes second to the appearance of historical thought in the modern period. In the light of the questions pertaining to the essence of nature in this period and the expansion of its laws and principles in the domain of human life, some questions were also posed regarding the nature of history. Therefore, history turned into one of the sources of knowledge. By inquiring into the nature of the history of philosophy, Hegel considered it to be the essence of the history of the world. In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, he first talks about the nature of the history of philosophy and then, in line with the principles of his own historical thought, refers to the periods of the history of philosophy in its geographical development from the East to the West. The writer of this paper has treated this issue on the basis of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy.