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- One historic epoch is not randomly followed by another; instead, there is a principle of logical evolution. As a metaphor for this, Hegel used the growth cycle of a plant, whose stages occur according to an inner principle. Hegel saw history as following a predetermined logic that repeatedly led to contradictions and revolutions.
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The “philosophy of spirit” of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel made its appearance upon the intellectual scene contemporaneously with Saint-Simonian and Comtean positivism, rivalling the latter in scope and influence and bringing with it its own highly distinctive theory of historical evolution and change.
Feb 13, 1997 · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. First published Thu Feb 13, 1997; substantive revision Thu Jan 9, 2020. Along with J.G. Fichte and, at least in his early work, F.W.J. von Schelling, Hegel (1770–1831) belongs to the period of German idealism in the decades following Kant. The most systematic of the post-Kantian idealists, Hegel attempted ...
Abstract. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and educator in the nineteenth century. Among his most famous theories is the Hegelian dialectic, which describes an ongoing process of evolution encompassing man, nature, and spirit into a holistic understanding of the universe.
It proposed a new theory, now called dialectical idealism, which contended that the evolution of society throughout history is shaped by gigantic, invisible, often contradictory forces. As if to underline this theory, on 13th October 1806, Napoleon’s armies entered Jena – just as Hegel was putting the finishing touches to his manuscript.
Hegel makes his hostility to evolutionary theory clear at the beginning and towards the end of the Philosophy of Nature. In the Introduction, for example, he states that ‘it is a completely empty thought to represent species as developing successively, one after the other, in time....
The Phenomenology of Spirit (German: Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the most widely discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; its German title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind.
Oct 30, 2019 · Includes a very accessible account of Hegel’s philosophy of history, the influence of Hegel’s predecessors, the reaction of Hegel’s critics, and the impact on later thought, especially that of Karl Marx.
