Gwf hegel biography for kids

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, - November 14, ) was a philosopher born in Stuttgart, Germany. He was educated at Tübingen seminary, and was fascinated by the works of Spinoza, Kant, and Rousseau, and by the French Revolution.

Hegel's thought is held by many to represent the summit of 19th Century Germany's movement of philosophical idealism; it was a profound influence on the historical materialism of Karl Marx.

Gwf hegel biography for kids

Hegel attended the seminary at Tübingen with the epic poet Friedrich Hölderlin and the objective idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling. The three watched the unfolding of the French Revolution and collaborated in a critique[?] of the idealist philosophies of Kant and his follower Fichte.

Hegel's first and most important major work is the Phenomenology of Spirit[?] (or ". .

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. of Mind"). During his life he also published the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the Science of Logic and the [Elements of the] P