Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwas a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized...
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Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.
memories mean views
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.
character mean quality
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
mean journey goal
Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
philosophy philosophical mean
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
mean thinking ideas
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
free
To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
acted action experience history learned people principles teaches
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
history history-and-historians learn
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
great passion
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion
consciousness freedom progress
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
consciousness freedom history none
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
intelligent objectivity soul
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
art expression sublime
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.