Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡl̩]; 27 August 1770–14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.
Born in 1770 in Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire, during the transitional period between the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement in the Germanic regions of Europe, Hegel lived through and was influenced by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. His fame rests chiefly upon (Book) Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic, his teleological account of history, and his lectures at the University of Berlin on topics from his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.
Guided by the Delphic imperative to “know thyself,” Hegel presents free self-determination as the essence of humankind–a conclusion from his 1806–07 Phenomenology that he claims is further verified by the systematic account of the interdependence of logic, nature, and spirit in his later Encyclopedia. He asserts that the Logic at once preserves and overcomes the dualisms of the material and the mental–that is, it accounts for both the continuity and difference marking of the domains of nature and culture–as a metaphysically necessary and coherent “identity of identity and non-identity.”
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def. Universal (Hegel). This is the realm of the subject. They can post a thesis, and an antithesis, and perform dialectical synthesis
def. Absolute (Hegel). This is the realm that the subject simply observes. This is the realm of god, material things, etc. This is where no dialectics can occur.
Hegelian Ethics (via Torii Moi)
- Men meet in society and conflict, etc.
- They form a dialectic, which synthesizes to ethical principles
- Women live in the family.
- They are “generic” in that they can’t form a dialectic, they have generic anonymity
- The best “ethics” they can do is to serve and protect the family
Master-Slave Dialectic (via Torii Moi)
- Two individuals (subjects) meet
- In the “life-death” struggle, one wins out. The winner becomes the master, the loser the slave
- Both are subjects, in that they are acknowledged their consciousness