Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system", of Absolute idealism to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature, the subject and object of knowledge, psychology, the state, history, art, religion and philosophy. In particular, he developed the concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other. Examples of such contradictions include those between nature and freedom, and between immanence and transcendence. Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers and his detractors. His influential conceptions are of speculative logic or "dialectic", "absolute idealism", "Spirit", negativity, sublation (Aufhebung in German), the "Master/Slave" dialectic, "ethical life" and the importance of history.

Personal facts

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Birth dateAugust 27, 1770
Birth place
Stuttgart , Duchy of Württemberg
Date of deathNovember 14, 1831
Place of death
Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
Era
19th-century philosophy
Main interest
Metaphysics
Political philosophy
Philosophy of history
Logic

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External resources

  1. http://carlosperez.cc/wp-content/uploads/proposicion_marxismo_hegeliano_alta.pdf
  2. http://classiques.uqac.ca/contemporains/gouin_jean_luc/gouin_jean_luc.html
  3. http://hegel-society.org.uk
  4. http://hegel.net
  5. http://libcom.org/library/philosophy-history-hegel
  6. http://libcom.org/library/philosophy-right-hegel
  7. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-aesthetics
  8. http://terrypinkard.weebly.com/phenomenology-of-spirit-page.html
  9. http://web.mit.edu/mmj4/www/downloads/footprint1.pdf