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anyone knows what he means by this? that we fail to learn from history or that there's nothing to learn from history?

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Part 7
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The Great Ship

>Still less must this complacency which abjures Science
>claim that such rapturous haziness is superior to Science.
This time seems rather appropriate to explain why Hegel uses the term 'Science'.
Hegel began this work by using the term, but I didn't further explain why this term was used nor why it references God. I only explained that Hegel used the word 'Science' with a capital 'S', and this is similar to how we capitalize the word God. The reason why Hegel uses the word 'Science' instead of 'God' here is because Hegel has, in his mind, successfully married the 'craft' (philosophy/science) with the 'mother-ship' (God). In other words, in his mind, Hegel has completed the work he has set out to do.

It may be rather jolting to some people thinking that God could be renamed, however throughout the ages and in different languages the name of God changes, and so too is Hegel attempting to change the word 'God' yet again by calling it 'Science.' (capital 'S') I will not do this. I will still refer to God as 'God' and not 'Science', and I will discourage such a name change because colloquially, the term 'science' is well-defined and understood already, and in Hegel's day (200 years ago), the term 'science' was not nearly as well established as it is today. It would simply be too easy to mistake the term 'science' with the other term 'Science' (capital 'S'). Therefore I will refrain from using the word 'Science' in this commentary.

Now, in this sentence, Hegel is saying that there are people who value the unplanned-ness of their spirituality, and in doing so, they care little about damaging philosophy/science. These people claim that their spirituality is superior to planned spirituality (science and God united). Hegel will go on to explain in the next sentences why it is misguided to think that planned spirituality is inferior or any less genuine than unplanned spirituality.