Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He achieved wide recogneetion in his day an—while primarily influential within the continental tradeetion o philosophie—haes acome increasinly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although Hegel remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Portrait bi Jakob Schlesinger datit 1831, the year o Hegel's daith.
Born	August 27, 1770 Stuttgart, Württemberg
Dee'd	14 November 1831(1831-11-14) (aged 61) Berlin, Proushie
Residence	Germany
Naitionality	German
Era	19t-century philosophie
Region	Wastren philosophie
Schuil	Foonder o Hegelianism German idealism Historicism Precursor tae historism
Main interests	philosophie o history Poleetical philosophie Logic · Aesthetics · Releegion Metapheesics · Epistemology
Notable ideas	Absolute idealism Master–slave dialectic "Sublation" (Aufheben) Geist ("mind-spirit")
Influences Aristotle Plato Heraclitus Neoplatonism Descartes Goethe Spinoza Leibniz Rousseau Böhme Kant Fichte Hölderlin Schelling Smith Schiller
Influenced Adorno Barth Bauer Bosanquet Bradley Brandom Beauvoir Butler Carové Croce Danto Derrida Dilthey Doull Engels Erdmann Fackenheim Feuerbach Fischer Fukuyama Heidegger Gans Gentile Hinrichs Heine Hyppolite Kaufmann Kierkegaard Kojève Mário Ferreira dos Santos Küng Lukács Marcuse Marx Michelet Nietzsche Oppenheim Pippin Rose Rosenkranz Russon Sartre Singer Strauss Taylor Zeller Žižek
Signatur

Hegel's principal achievement wis his development o a distinctive airteeculation o idealism, whiles termed absolute idealism, in that the dualisms of, for instance, mynd an naitur an subject an object are owercome. His philosophie o speerit conceptually integrates psychology, the state, history, airt, releegion an philosophie. His accoont o the master–sclave dialectic haes been heichly influential, especially in 20t-century Fraunce. O special importance is his concept o speerit (Geist, whiles an aw translatit as "mynd") as the historical manifestation o the logical concept an the "sublation" (Aufhebung, integration withoot elimination or reduction) o seeminly contradictory or opposin factors: ensaumples include the apparent opposeetion atween necessity an freedom an atween immanence an transcendence. Hegel haes been seen in the 20t century as the oreeginator o the thesis, antithesis, synthesis triad, but as an expleecit phrase it oreeginatit wi Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Hegel haes influenced mony thinkers an writers that's awn poseetions vary widely. Karl Barth descrived Hegel as a "Protestant Aquinas" while Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote that "aw the great philosophical ideas o the past century—the philosophies o Marx an Nietzsche, phenomenology, German existentialism, an psychoanalysis—haed thair beginnins in Hegel."