Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831). German philosopher, the most influential and arguably most significant in the 19th cent. Hegel completed his formal education at Jena, where he also taught until the university was ‘reorganized’ by Napoleon (whom Hegel called ‘the
Zeitgeist on horseback’) and where he wrote
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). In this, his first major book, the dialectic of human experience is unfolded. Spirit as pure potentiality (
An-sich-sein), through its self-alienation and self-objectification in nature (
Dasein) and then through its progressive self-reconciliation in the history of human self-consciousness, comes finally to full awareness of itself as pure or absolute Spirit (
Für-sich-sein). Hegel defined ‘religion’ with disarming simplicity as ‘the consciousness of God’. Viewed
phenomenologically, ‘consciousness of God’ refers in Hegel's writings to a person's coming to be aware of essential unity with the divine Spirit. Viewed speculatively, however, ‘consciousness of God’ refers at the same time to God's own self-consciousness. The history of religions is likewise the means of God's coming to ‘be-for-himself’ in and through people's ever-developing consciousness of him.
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Hegel on Schleiermacher and postmodernity.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Schleiermacher )
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...between G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher at...explored. In fact, Hegel's antipathy toward...association with Friedrich Schlegel, whom he...J. Schelling and Friedrich Holderlin, but not Hegel. Diez represented...
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Hegel on the Incarnation: unique or universal? (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
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The Harmless Detail: On Hegel's Aesthetics.(Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...one would have had good reason to expect Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel to broach it in his Aesthetics. Undoubtedly...the central determining category of Hegel's aesthetics, according to Georg Lukacs--and "'das Allgemeine" (universality...
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SCHELLING'S CRITIQUE OF HEGEL'S SCIENCE OF LOGIC.(Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling)(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...modern philosophy by revealing the flaws in Hegel in ways which help set the agenda for philosophy...The claim that Schelling's critique of Hegel has exercised considerable influence on...heard Schelling lecture in the years after Hegel's death in 1831 and were receptive to...
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Hegel's logic of actuality.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)(Report)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...post-Kantian idealism to put forth the thesis that Hegel completes Kant, that Hegel completes the Kantian critical project by transforming...focus on the great similarities between Kant and Hegel in their attempts to work out how the conditions...
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Hegel, Harris, and the Spirit of the Phenomenology.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, H.S. Harris)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...student. I was already convinced that Hegel's naturalism and realism were underestimated...finally replacing Theodor Haering's Hegel: Sein Wollen und Sein Werk.(1) Despite...and reported that it was a landmark. Hegel's texts are notoriously rich, compressed...
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Hegel's realism: the implicit metaphysics of self-knowledge.(CRITICAL STUDY)(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; THIS PAPER ADDRESSES A READING OF HEGEL'S METAPHYSICS made by Tom Rockmore in Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, (1) and...alternative. As Rockmore's argument aims to present Hegel in a way relevant to contemporary philosophical...
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Hegel's analysis of colonialism and its roots in Scottish political economy.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
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; G. W. F. Hegel's account of colonies in the Elements...general, they convincingly demonstrate that Hegel's endorsement of colonialism undermines...European peoples. These interpretations of Hegel's advocacy of colonialism should be supplemented...
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The specter of Hegel in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hartley Coleridge,)
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Ideas; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of his curiously willed ignorance of Hegel. The critical consensus on the question of Coleridge's relation to Hegel seems to be puzzlement. (2) Gerald...observing, "Coleridge didn't read much of Hegel, but he perhaps should have." (3...
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The sovereignty of the metaphysical in Hegel's Philosophy of Right.(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...relation of metaphysics and politics in Hegel's political thought has become a bone of contention for contemporary approaches to Hegel. This has not always been the case. For...the early years of the 20th century, the Hegel scholar Henry S. Macran deemed it permissible...
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Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had a profound effect on modern thought. Hegel wrote his earliest work in 1807 and his groundbreaking Philosophy of Right in 1827. An idealist, he explored the nature of...
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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...and philosophers such as Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von...skepticism. Further Reading Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis Werke, 6 vols...1964). Additional Sources Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Faith & knowledge, Albany...
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Hegelians
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...enormous influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831...its great adversary. Hegel has played an important...his former schoolmate Friedrich von Schelling as the...then, the meaning of Hegel ’ s teaching...
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