Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

August 27, 1770 November 14, 1831

Early Years
Childhood: Hegel was born on August 27, 1770 inStuttgart, in the Duchy Wrttembergin southwestern Germany.

 At the age of three Hegel went to the "German School". When he entered the "Latin School" aged five, he already knew thefirst declension, having been taught it by his mother.

 At the age of eighteen Hegel entered the Tbinger Stift(a Protestant seminary attached to theUniversity of Tbingen), where two fellow students were to become vital to his development his exact contemporary, the poetFriedrich Hlderlin, and the younger brilliant philosopher-to-be Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Having received his theological certificate (Konsistorialexamen) from the Tbingen Seminary, Hegel becameHofmeister(house tutor) to an aristocratic family inBern(179396). During this period he composed the text which has become known as the "Life of Jesus" and a book-length manuscript entitled "The Positivity of the Christian Religion".

Career Years
Jena, Bamberg and Nuremberg: 1801-1816
In 1801 Hegel came toJenawith the encouragement of his old friend Schelling, who was Extraordinary Professor at theUniversitythere. Hegel secured a position at the University as aPrivatdozent(unsalaried lecturer) after submitting aHabilitationsschrift(dissertation) on the orbits of the planets. In 1805 the University promoted Hegel to the position of Extraordinary Professor (unsalaried), after Hegel wrote a letter to the poet and minister of cultureJohann Wolfgang von Goetheprotesting at the promotion of his philosophical adversaryJakob Friedrich Friesahead of him. In March 1807, aged 37, Hegel moved toBamberg, where Niethammer had declined and passed on to Hegel an offer to become editor of a newspaper, theBamberger Zeitung. Hegel, unable to find more suitable employment, reluctantly accepted.

 Hegel married Marie Helena Susanna von Tucher (17911855), the eldest daughter of a Senator, in 1811. This period saw the publication of his second major work, theScience of Logic(Wissenschaft der Logik; 3 vols., 1812, 1813, 1816), and the birth of his two legitimate sons, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1813 1901) and Immanuel Thomas Christian (18141891). Heidelberg and Berlin: 1816-1831 Having received offers of a post from the Universities ofErlangen,Berlin, andHeidelberg, Hegel chose Heidelberg, where he moved in 1816. In 1818 Hegel accepted the renewed offer of the chair of philosophy at theUniversity of Berlin, which had remained vacant since Fichte's death in 1814. Here he published hisPhilosophy of Right(1821) Hegel was appointed Rector of the University in 1830, when he was 60.

Hegels Works
Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) - his account of the evolution of consciousness from senseperception to absolute knowledge The Science of Logic, the Logical and Metaphysical Core (1811,1812,1816) Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (1816) Elements of the Philosophy Right (1822)

What theory Hegel sustains?

Questions and Answers

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.

What philosophy type Hegel develops?

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.

Which the first writings that realized Hegel?

In Tubingen Seminars Hegel composed the text which has become known as the "Life of Jesus" and a book-length manuscript entitled "The Positivity of the Christian Religion".While in Frankfurt Hegel composed the essay "Fragments on Religion and Love". In 1799 he wrote another essay entitled "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate" which was not published during his lifetime. Writings of Youth have been study object and interpretation from their publication at the beginning of the XX century.

Why was difficult to understand the writings of Hegel?

Hegel's writing style is difficult to read; he is described by Bertrand Russell in the History of Western Philosophy as the single most difficult philosopher to understand. This is partly because Hegel tried to develop a new form of thinking and logic, which he called "speculative reason" and which includes the more famous concept of "dialectic", to try to overcome what he saw as the limitations of both common sense and of traditional philosophy at grasping philosophical problems and the relation between thought and reality.

What meant for Hegel mind and spirit "? "Mind" and "Spirit" are the common English translations of Hegel's use of the German "Geist." Some have argued that either of these terms overly "psychologize" Hegel , implying a kind of disembodied, solipsistic consciousness like ghost or "soul." Geist combines the meaning of spiritas in god, ghost or mindwith an intentional force.

How explained Hegel the concept of Dialectical

The dialectical one as ontology, implies a conception of the reality in process to circulate of three moments whose motor is the contradiction. The infinite being is then, an entirety since anything is isolated and everything is in relationship. But it is a relationship of opposition and not of indentity. The three moments of dialectical process are: First moment: Thesis. Position. Inmediatez. Indetermination. To be in yes. Second moment: Antithesis. Negation or contradiction. Mediation. (Vermittlung). Determination. To be for yes ,objetivacin. Alienation could be added. Third moment: Synthesis. Negation of the negation and superacin The dialectical one as method, consists on to discover and to continue rationally in move into of the Idea, so the reason and the reality express their true coincidence. Hegel, indeed, proposes a new logic different to the Aristotelian form that is based on the principle of identity.

Which is the relationship between the theory Hegelian and the Marxist theory? Hegel's Dialectic Dialectic Marx's

"Two Trees" - comparison of Hegel and Marx's view of reality.

Which were the main ideas Hegelianism? Hegel's main philosophical project was to take these contradictions and tensions and interpret them as part of a comprehensive, evolving, rational unity that, in different contexts, he called "the absolute idea" or "absolute knowledge". According to Hegel, the main characteristic of this unity was that it evolved through and manifested itself in contradiction and negation. Contradiction and negation have a dynamic quality that at every point in each domain of realityconsciousness, history, philosophy, art, nature, societyleads to further development until a rational unity is reached that preserves the contradictions as phases and sub-parts by lifting them up (Aufhebung) to a higher unity.

Hegel vs. Aristotle

Similarities -negative view on women-Difference between men and women is like that of animals and plants. Pg.367 -Both lovers of nature Differences Aristotle believed in the ability for change is in only the living. Hegel believed that things that are non-living such as history are in a state of change due to different perspectives.

Hegels ideas
Believed men were superior to women Linked history to the metaphor of a river-remains a river but is constantly expanding and progressing. The terms right and wrong depends on your perspective World spirit has been progressing and expanding. One thought leads to its opposite and then a new synthesis is born Philosophy is the greatest form of knowledge because it is the world spirit reflecting on itself