The German philosopher and educator Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel took all knowledge as his domain and made original contributions to the understanding of history, law, logic, art, religion, and philosophy. Living in a time of geniuses and revolutions,...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was the last of the great German Idealist philosophers. He perfected the dialectical method, which, in his philosophy, is not only a way of thinking but also the process by which reality evolves. The harmonious integration...

The German philosopher and educator Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) took all of knowledge as his domain and made original contributions to the understanding of history, law, logic, art, religion, and philosophy. Living in a time of geniuses...

Probably no other philosophy dominates the modern European consciousness to the same extent as Hegel’s. Yet few great thinkers have been so consistently misunderstood and their teaching so distorted by friend and foe alike, even today, in spite...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) may well be the most influential philosopher and political theorist Germany has produced, with the possible exception of Kant. He follows in a European tradition influenced by Rousseau and having...

. 1770–1831. Born in Stuttgart, he worked at a various German universities, especially Berlin, where he died. He is usually classified as an objective IDEALIST. His system is characterized by the use of a DIALECTIC of thesis, antithesis and...

The origins of English Protestantism are to be found in the teachings of John Wycliffe (c. 1330–1384) and his followers, the Lollards. Wycliffe attacked papal AuTHORITY, advocated a literal interpretation of scripture, and rejected the doctrine...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (IPA: [ˈgeɔʁk ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhegəl]) (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and, with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the representatives...

The contretemps between G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher at the University of Berlin is well known. (1) The nature of their struggle for influence, the latter's refusal to admit the former into the Berlin Academy and Hegel's reciprocal distancing of Schleiermacher...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has been a major influence in modern Christian theology. His belief that the Incarnation occurs in rational thinking per se rather than in the unique Incarnation in Christian theology has made some American theologians think that Jesus may not be...

Today is Monday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2007. There are 126 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and...

In the following essay, Taylor compares the works of Søren Kierkegaard and Hegel, particularly in the area of psychology, to highlight what he views as their common purpose of educating readers and encouraging them to cultivate themselves spiritually.

In the following essay, Ware addresses misperceptions of Hegel's views of philosophy and the philosophy of history.

In the following essay, Kain assesses Hegel's indebtedness to the ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant for his own theories of politics and history. The critic explains Hegel's concept of spirit, and elaborates on why this theory is fundamental to the philosopher's views on the ideal state in the modern world.