Hegel arranged the dialectic into staged epochs, crowned by philosophy

Evidence

Though Hegel was no evolutionist, he was not so far removed from the impulse of the Enlightenment as to be incapable of conceiving this endless dialectic as arranged into distinct stages or epochs: the “Age of Religion,” the “Age of Poetry,” the “Age of Science”—crowned, of course, by the “Age of Philosophy.” These epochs had a shadowy history sketched within them, though they were in no sense precisely rooted in a historical periodization. Indeed, like much Enlightenment thought, they began with what looked like a historical moment, but was, in fact, something rather more like the essential moment of genesis of all human history: that is, with the Greeks. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 329

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Hegel’s stages-of-epochs scheme (Age of Religion, Poetry, Science, Philosophy) and its genealogy from the Greeks rather than from actual periodization.
• XREF: connects to: Hegel achieved in one system the awareness of contradictions formerly spread across many — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1436
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hegel achieved in one system the awareness of contradictions formerly spread across many — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1436