Hegelianism The term Hegelianism is applied to a range of philosophical doctrines and traditions influenced by the nineteenth century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). Hegel's influence is as broad and diverse...

Hegelianism is a philosophy developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel which can be summed up by a favorite motto by Hegel, "the rational alone is real," which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to...

In the introduction of The Second Sex, [1] Beauvoir raises the notion of woman's Otherness. In an effort to trace the development of woman's subordinate position as Other to man, she engages with the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. [2] Beauvoir's engagement...

THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW CENTURY provides a good time to reflect on the most influential philosophers of this period, or those most likely to survive, or again whom we should be reading in a hundred years. The answer one gives to this...

Sometime last fall, the biographer Robert Caro got a phone call from Roger Hertog, then vice chairman of AllianceBernstein and a rich and powerful New York City history buff. Columbia was planning a big exhibit on Robert Moses, New York’s master builder from the mid-20th...

Compares the ideas and views of philosophers Kant, Marx, and Hegel. Considers how each philosopher viewed the individuals role in the society. Concludes that the realization of the actual world and the freedom of understanding, will always be at the forefront of humanity.