The subjective turn

Is human nature static, or constantly developing through time? Human nature strives through history to unchain itself from tradition, but is such inner freedom worth the cost? In this piece for Aeon magazine, Jon Stewart — a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava — studies the history of 'subjectivity' and 'individuality' through the lens of German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel.