Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770-1831)
Hegel was a theology student in nearby Tubingen were he formed friendships with Friedrich Holderlin and Friedrich von Schelling which had a major influence on Hegel's philosophical development.The lives of the three were intertwined for a while. Up until 1800 Hegel was devoted to developing his ideas on religious and social themes. Hegel saw himself in the future as a modernizing and reforming educator. However under the influence of Holderlin and Schelling his interests turned into issues arising from the "critical" philosophy started by Kant. In the 1790s the University of Jena became know for the development of critical philosophy, and in 1801 Hegel moved to Jena to join Schelling who was attracted by the presence of Fichte, however the glory days of Jena were over Schelling and Hegel 's friendship ended and the university was closed down due to Napoleon's troops. Without an university and Schelling, Hegel worked for a while as an editor of a newspaper to the headmaster and philosophy teacher in Nuremberg. In 1818 he was offered and took the chair of philosophy at the University of Berlin. In 1831 after his death many different versions of his lectures on philosophy were published.

Philosophy
Hegel's philosophy or Hegelian-ism is "the rational alone is real". This means that all reality is capable of being expressed into rational categories, Hegel's philosophy is treated as giving an example of "dogmatic" metaphysics (the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things) against which Kant reacted in his "critique of Pure Reason and as a "return to a more religiously driven conception of philosophy in which Kant had been opposed". The peculianty of Hegel's form of dealism lies in his idea that the mind of God becomes actual only via it's individually in the minds of "his" finite creatures. Hegel also demands on the idea of an infinite self-reflecting subject as at the centralpart of Hegel's philosophy. Hegel's also believed when man alters nature, he himself is also altered. Hegel's philosophy is in Packet 6 pg 229 He had analyzed also what Marx was preoccupied with, (what happens to man when he works).

5 Quotes
"Philosophy is it's own time raised to the level of thought."

"Has no other object but God and so is essentially rational theology."

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."

"The history of the world is nothing but the development of the idea of freedom."

"If facts contradict to my theory, the worse for he facts."

3 Famous works
Phenomenology of Spirits-The three-stage dialectal life of spirit.

Science of Logic-Hegel outlined his vision of logic.

Philosophy of Right-Statement of his legal moral,social and political philosophy.