The philosopher was the most influential representatives of German idealism. His philosophy is one of the most complex in the history of philosophy and is in effect akin to that of Plato, Aristotle and Kant. He taught the philosophy of absolute idealism. He is strictly a systematic approach. In his “Phenomenology” he shows the development of philosophical thought to reason on. It means reflecting on itself as the consciousness of himself, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel’s entire oeuvre is characterized by his dialectical thought. His other principal methods of the thesis is the identity between thought and reality. The works of Hegel were also the starting point of many other streams in the entire field of culture …
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel was the son of an ancient family of theologians and officials on 27 Born in Stuttgart in Dignified 1770.
Hegel, in Stuttgart, visited first the German and Latin School. He was then at the end of the year “illustrious high school” 1788 Student of the local. His special academic performance earned him a scholarship that enabled him in time from 1788 to 1793 the study of philology, arithmetic, philosophy, and with his master’s degree in 1790, the study of theology in Tubingen. During this time he met the future poet Friedrich Hölderlin and the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling know later and maintained a forthcoming relationship with them. Hegel was interested in at this time especially for remains and the French Revolution.
With completing his studies in the monastery for a time as Hegel was a private tutor in Berne and Frankfurt / M. busy. A legacy brought him the financial security to devote himself to his philosophy. 1801 his essay “Difference between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System” was published. The following year came the title “Faith and Knowledge”. The connection to Schelling allowed him the doctorate at the University of Jena. 1805 Hegel was then an associate professor of philosophy. At the time, made the poet Novalis, Ludwig Tieck and the brothers Friedrich and Dignified Wilhelm Schlegel in Jena to the center of German romanticism.
In addition, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena taught at the history and the idealist philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Schelling’s philosophy. 1806 Napoleon defeated at Jena and Auerstadt the troops of Prussia, Russia and Saxony. The Prussian Empire disintegrated and Hegel left Jena. In the same year he completed work on its first corporate magazine “The Phenomenology of Spirit.” It was published in 1807 in Bamberg and Würzburg. In the same year, he worked briefly as editor of the “Bamberger Zeitung”. The following year he became rector of Ägidyengymnasiums in Nuremberg, which he directed until 1815.
During this time the first two volumes of his second major work “Knowledge of Logic” were published. 1816 they released the third volume. In this work draws Hegel the development of the Absolute. Following his time in Nuremberg Hegel went to Heidelberg, where he held a chair of philosophy. There he made in 1817, the “Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences,” which set out the outline of his philosophical system. This encyclopedia summarizes Hegel’s work approaches systematically in his other writings, together with a synopsis, which includes his philosophical thoughts.
His system influenced by Marxism and Hegelianism and modern philosophical systems. In 1818, he left Heidelberg and went to Berlin. There he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Fichte’s successor. 1821 his work appeared on “Philosophy of Right”. In it he outlined his conception of practical philosophy, in law, ethics and morality as a salutation means of the mind. Hegel held regularly from 1822 to 1830 the address “On the Philosophy of World History.” They gave him not only the validity of a Prussian philosopher, but of the top German philosopher par excellence.
In particular, his lectures on aesthetics, religious conviction and philosophy of history, in which he expounded his theory of “absolute spirit” have made an enormous mass appeal. His other teaching subjects as included philosophy of law, philosophy and art history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died on 14 November 1831 in Berlin from cholera.
