Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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born

August 27, 1770 in Stuttgart, Germany

died

November 14, 1831

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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/

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Philosophy, History, Politics

influences

Aristotle, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Goethe, Vico, Rousseau, Heraclitus

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German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.

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	Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (Translator), J.N. Findlay (foreword) 3.75 avg rating — 2,577 ratings — published 1806 — 70 editions	My rating:
	The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. Sibree (Translator), C.J. Friedrich (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 1831 — 37 editions	My rating:
	Introduction to the Philosophy of History: With Selections from the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Leo Rauch (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Allen W. Wood (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1821 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Reason in History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Robert S. Hartman (translator) 3.45 avg rating — 151 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Bernard Bosanquet (Translator), Michael Inwood (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (translator) 4.26 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1816 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Lectures on Fine Art 1 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, T.M. Know (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Yirmiyahu Yovel (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusatze by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Theodore F. Geraets, W.A. Suchting 3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1830 — 5 editions	My rating:

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