Questions related to the works of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831), who was an important figure of German Idealism.
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What did Hegel mean by 'world spirit'?
I understand that Hegel intends to justify the history of mankind by stating that every town and society that has existed has been a test indirectly arranged by the 'world spirit' in order to eventually create a town in which people would live…
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Do we know whether Hegel's Owl of Minerva is meant to be a present or future reference?
One of the more famous passages in Hegel's philosophy is
"When philosophy paints its gray on gray, then has a form of life grown old, and with gray on gray it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known; the Owl of Minerva first takes flight with…
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Why Hegel thinks that A and not-A will entail each other?
According to Hegel, he claims that both contradictory concepts are eventiually found to be included in the upper one. I don't really know what this means, it sounds like a ridiculous joke.
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Hegel's “the worse for the facts!”
This story is often mentioned, but without references. Was that a true story? Did Hegel indeed say this -- “the worse for the facts!” -- when somebody told him "your theory contradicts the facts!"? Or this was just a joke? Does anybody know a…
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According to Hegel, can the master misrecognise himself as the slave?
According to Hegel, can the master misrecognize himself as the slave?
According to what I'm reading, in Hegel the master recognizes himself, via the slave, and so dies, and without seeing the universal, unlike the slave.
Supposing that's a viable…
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Hegel facing upto Orwell, in room 101
In the addition to section 106, of Hegels Philosophy of right, he writes:
As no-one can successfully assail a mans inner conviction, and no force reach it can reach it, the moral will is inaccessible.
One can contrast this in the famous last scene…
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The unity of opposites of the real and the ideal
In §324 of Science of Logic Hegel writes explicitly that
the ideal [ das Ideelle ] is again one of the moments, and the real [ das Reale ] the other
In the rest of the text, of course, whenever two opposites are identified as two moments, that…
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What does Hegel mean by "Geist returning to itself"?
I am reading a secondary source that has a section dedicated to Hegel. It says “For Hegel, the whole of history is such a dialectical process—one that is driven by Geist returning to itself, having “emptied” itself into time.” What exactly is meant…
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Which English translation of Hegel's 'Science of Logic' would you recommend?
Which English translation of Hegel's 'Science of Logic' would you recommend?
I have a translation by A. V. Miller, and another one by George di Giovanni.
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What does this quote from Hegel mean?
On account of this general connection between political freedom and the freedom of Thought, Philosophy only appears in History where and in as far as free institutions are formed. Since Mind requires to separate itself from its natural will and…
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What is the current state of translation of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy in English?
There seem to be quite a few different versions of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy floating around. What gives?
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Why does Hegel suggest that rationality may go against itself eventually?
Hegel's view on Kant's antinomy is that it uncovers the inherent contradiction of rationality. I don't get it that the concept negates itself through logical deduction. My example is sponetanity vs causation. Causation consists of cause and result,…
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Question about Hegel
My professor said Hegel believes that the progress of rationality roots in the contradiction. One of the example is that to Kant's Antinomy, Hegel said we can know two opposite prepositions lead to third one through Aufheben like aufheben morality ,…
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Where does Hegel say the following?
Where does Hegel say the following or something like it?
Our universities . . . are our churches.
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To what kind of religion is Hegels 'spirit' (Mind/Geist) most related?
Hegel explains in his works how the Geist is evolving during history towards a kind of consciousfreedom. It seems to me initially that in the end our own minds has evolved to a rational God, but I'm not sure of this. But in what religion is the…
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