Hegel
Archetype: Communitarian of Spirit
1770 to 1831 · Jena and Berlin, Germany
“What is rational is real, and what is real is rational.”
Do you think like Hegel? Answer 44 to 132 statements and find out who, among 130 thinkers, has the way of thinking closest to yours.
Who was Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a professor in Jena, Heidelberg and Berlin, where he became the most influential philosopher in Germany. He built an enormous system in which history, art, religion and the state are stages in the development of Spirit. His dialectic inspired admirers and critics alike, from Marx to the existentialists.
Core ideas
- Reality develops through conflicts and overcomings, in a dialectical movement
- History is the path by which human freedom is realized
- We recognize ourselves as subjects through the recognition of others
The tradition: German idealist
German idealism was the post-Kant current that saw reason or spirit as the basis of all reality. Hegel is its culmination, with a system that embraces nature, history and culture.
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Books by Hegel
Three ways in. Start with the first.
Where Hegel stands on the 11 axes
Each axis runs from the first pole (−1) to the second (+1). These are the positions the test compares with your answers.
