Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831

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Biographical note

German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism, and along with Immanuel Kant, one of the most influential philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, or "system", to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature, the subject and object of knowledge, and psychology, the state, history, art, religion and philosophy. In particular, he developed a concept of mind or spirit that 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.

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Works

  • Hegel's Aesthetics: A Critical Exposition (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1885), ed. by John Steinfort Kedney
  • The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1886), ed. by Bernard Bosanquet
  • Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion; Together With a Work on the Proofs of the Existence of God, ed. by E. B. Speirs, trans. by Jane Charlotte Burdon Sanderson
  • The Logic of Hegel (or, the "Shorter Logic"), trans. by William Wallace
  • The Phenomenology of Mind, trans. by J. B. Baillie
  • The Philosophy of Art: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1886), also by Karl Ludwig Michelet, trans. by W. Hastie
  • The Philosophy of Art: Being the Second Part of Hegel's Aesthetik, in Which are Unfolded Historically the Three Great Fundamental Phases of the Art-Activity of the World (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1879), trans. by William McKendree Bryant
  • The Philosophy of History, trans. by J. Sibree, contrib. by Charles Hegel
  • Wissenschaft der Logik V1, by Hegel
  • Wissenshaft der Logik V2, by G. Hegel
  • Rede zum Schuljahresabschluss, by Hegel
  • Phaenomenologie des Geistes, by G. Hegel
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