黑格尔历史观的合理内核是系统地把辩证法应用于社会历史的研究。他认为 ,历史是一个由低级到高级、由量变到质变的辩证发展过程 ,是一个因果承续性的系列 ,应该用合理性与现实性的观点去观察历史现象。他首次提出探究历史发展终极原因的问题 ,并认为人的需要是推动人们创造历史的动力。黑格尔历史观从内容和方法两方面为唯物史观的创立提供了理论前提 The reasonable core of Hegel’s view of history is the systematic application of dialectics to the study of social history. He believes that history is a dialectical process of development from low to high and from quantitative to qualitative change. It is a series of causation continuity and should be viewed from the perspective of rationality and reality. He put forward for the first time the issue of exploring the ultimate cause of historical development and considered that human needs are the motivation for promoting people’s creation of history. Hegel’s conception of history provides the theoretical premise for the establishment of historical materialism from two aspects of contents and methods