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HEGEL

HEGEL. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Born Stuttgart, Germany (Where Porsches are born too!) in 1770. Studies theology at Tubingen Univ. Professor at Heidelberg. Hegel’s Main Ideas.

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HEGEL

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  1. HEGEL • George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • Born Stuttgart, Germany (Where Porsches are born too!) in 1770. • Studies theology at Tubingen Univ. • Professor at Heidelberg

  2. Hegel’s Main Ideas • World Spirit (The World Spirit is growing and manifests itself in history)(History is the documentation of the growth of the World Spirit) • The method by which the World Spirit grows is dialectical. • Hegel’s thought is steeped in and also promotes romanticism. (Specifically German romanticism/nationalism)

  3. Hegel’s Idea of World Spirit • Hegel believed that history itself exhibits the growth of self-consciousness in the Absolute, the process of development by means of which the Weltgeist (World Spirit) comes to know itself. But since history inevitably follows the dialectical movement from thesis to antithesis to synthesis, the present age must be the highest stage of development.

  4. World Spirit, cont. • Hegel regarded the cultural achievements of his own time—nationalism, romanticism, protestantism, and idealism—as the culmination of all that had gone before, with his own philosophical work as its highest expression. Here is nineteenth-century optimism at its peak, full of self-confidence in the possibilities of rationality and enlightenment. Many thinkers of the nearly two centuries since Hegel's time have raised serious questions about the reliability of this modernist promise.

  5. Growth of the World Spirit

  6. Hegel’s Dialectic, Cont. Hegel's dialectic, which he usually presented in a threefold manner, comprises three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.

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