Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Book 1817

Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

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Hegel's Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences is the first, but also the last total thought of reality which bases its necessity on the identity of the rigorously respected self-identity of thought and the concretely explored difference from itself of reality; concept and experience triumph here jointly. This first part of the work - the science of logic - which dialectically deploys all the meanings organically en…

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Hegel: Reason in History

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Hegel interprets universal history as the progressive deployment of freedom. Particular passions and conflicts participate, often without the knowledge of the actors, in a broader rational movement.

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Book 1837

Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of History

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Hegel interprets universal history as the progressive development of the consciousness of freedom. Through the great political and cultural forms, the Spirit transforms conflicts, passions and institutions into moments of a rational process whose necessity philosophy seeks to understand.

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Book 1807

Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

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The Phenomenology of Spirit is not only a decisive work in the history of philosophy: it is also, alongside Shakespeare's theater or Dante's Divine Comedy, one of the major works of Western culture. Completed in a hurry, published in 1807 in a Europe agitated by the Napoleonic wars, it had a late success: in France, it was not until the 20th century that we recognized in it the summit of German idealist philosophy –…

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Book 1820

Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right

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Published in 1820 by Hegel, the Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, a work known in France under the title of Principles of the Philosophy of Law, is one of the major works of modern philosophy. On the basis of a considerably expanded idea of law, corresponding to all the manifestations of what he calls “objective spirit”, Hegel successively exposes the structures of “abstract law” (which corresponds to private …

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