Yeah, I knew someone would catch that,  “we all know” line… I got carried away ;-) 

Here I was talking about Hegel’s placing himself and his thought at the end/pinnacle of history. A lot like what you accuse Ken Wilber of doing, where one lay out a dialectal-developmental system, only to put one’s self at the top. They also both then look around and justify the given/present/actual as rational/good. Hence Hegel’s eventual conservative underlaboring for the emerging Prussian state. This was what the Young Hegelians were on about. As Habermas notes there were Young Hegelians on both sides of the Atlantic, as Peirce and Dewey also questioned if Hegel pulled the punch. There is a lot more history left. 

Sunshine and leaves everywhere. 

  

zak