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When Hegel's father died just before 1800, leaving him a small inheritance,
Hegel was able to concentrate more fully on his system of philosophy, which
had begun with religious and social themes, but began to move more toward
educational reform. Building on Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism
and Rousseau's politics, Hegel developed an elaborate system of philosophy
incorporating history, ethics, government and religion, and began publishing
his philosophical treatises, while working as an unpaid university lecturer
along with his old college friends.
Hegel said, perhaps hubristically, "...in writing that book I became aware of
employing a new and unprecedented way of thinking." But he clarified his
system by likening it to grammar: "You only really see the rewards when
you later come to observe language in use and you grasp what it is that
makes the language of poetry so evocative." His structure for this logic was
an incorporation of thesis and antithesis into synthesis—nothing is negated;
it all works together to form the whole.