Questo filosofo tedesco è una delle figure fondatrici dell'idealismo tedesco. Influenzato dall'idealismo trascendentale di Kant e dalla politica di Rousseau, formulò un elaborato sistema di sviluppo storico di etica, governo e religione attraverso lo svolgimento dialettico dell'Assoluto. Fu uno dei filosofi storicisti più noti e il suo pensiero presagì la filosofia continentale, compreso il postmoderno.
Il primo libro della "Scienza della logica" (contenente la dottrina dell'essere) uscì nella primavera del 1812, il secondo (la dottrina dell'essenza) nel maggio 1813, il terzo (la dottrina del concetto) nel 1816. Un ventennio più tardi Hegel si accingerà a rivedere il testo dell'opera per una nuova edizione; ma la morte gli impedirà di andare oltre il primo libro, uscito in seconda edizione, largamente rielaborata, nel 1831.
I "Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto" - pubblicati a Berlino nell'ottobre 1820 - rappresentano la summa del pensiero etico-politico di Hegel, l'ultima opera in volume da lui pubblicata, e forse quella che ha più influito nella storia e nel pensiero politico europeo. Con il sottotitolo "Diritto naturale e scienza dello Stato in compendio", il filosofo espone sinteticamente le linee fondamentali del processo dialettico di autodeterminazione dell'Idea, che ha lo scopo di "comprendere concettualmente lo Stato e di esporlo come qualcosa di intimamente razionale".
La Fenomenologia espone "il sapere nel suo divenire", cioè le varie tappe dell'autodispiegamento dialettico dello Spirito nella Storia. Essa comprende le diverse figure dello Spirito come stazioni del cammino mediante il quale lo Spirito diviene Sapere puro ovvero Spirito assoluto. In ogni suddivisione fondamentale di questa scienza vengono considerate: la coscienza, l'autocoscienza, la ragione osservativa e attiva, lo Spirito nelle sue varie forme (etico, colto, morale, religioso), per giungere allo Spirito assoluto o Sapere puro
Che cos'è la natura? A questa domanda in generale vogliamo rispondere mediante la conoscenza della natura e la filosofia della natura. Noi troviamo la natura davanti a noi come un enigma e un problema, che altrettanto ci sentiamo spinti a risolvere, quanto ne veniamo respinti: attratti, poiché lo spirito vi si presagisce, respinti da qualcosa di estraneo in cui lo spirito non si ritrova. La filosofia, dice Aristotele, è cominciata dalla meraviglia. G. W. F. Hegel
The Hegel Lectures Series, edited by Peter C. Hodgson, highlights the significant historical impact of Hegel's lectures, particularly those delivered in Berlin during the last decade of his life. Previous editions conflated materials, obscuring the development of Hegel's thought. This series is based on recently discovered transcripts and manuscripts, reconstructing lectures from specific years to clarify Hegel's arguments. Each volume features a new translation, editorial introduction, and annotations that identify Hegel's allusions and sources. The lectures on the Philosophy of Religion are crucial to Hegel's philosophical system, with variations in conception and execution across 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831. Earlier editions created confusion by merging these materials into a single text. The current volumes present a critical edition, separating the lectures into independent units based on a thorough re-editing of sources by Walter Jaeschke. The English translation, recognized as definitive, is produced by Robert F. Brown, Peter C. Hodgson, and J. Michael Stewart, with assistance from H. S. Harris. The three volumes include editorial introductions, critical annotations, textual variants, tables, a bibliography, and a glossary. Hegel's 'Introduction' establishes the philosophy of religion as a new discipline, addressing philosophical, theological, cultural, and epistemological issues, while 'The Concept of Religion' offers
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave many lectures in logic at Berlin University between 1818 and his untimely death in 1831. Edited posthumously by Hegel's son, Karl, these lectures were published in German in 2001 and now appear in English for the first time. Because they were delivered orally, Lectures on Logic is more approachable and colloquial than much of Hegel's formal philosophy. The lectures provide important insight into Hegel's science of logic, dialectical method, and symbolic logic. Clark Butler's smooth translation helps readers understand the rationality of Hegel's often dark and difficult thought. Readers at all levels will find a mature and particularly clear presentation of Hegel's systematic philosophical vision.
G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God’s purpose. At the beginning of this masterwork, Hegel writes: “What the history of Philosophy shows us is a succession of noble minds, a gallery of heroes of thought, who, by the power of Reason, have penetrated into the being of things, of nature and of spirit, into the Being of God, and have won for us by their labours the highest treasure, the treasure of reasoned knowledge.” In his introduction to this Bison Book edition, Frederick C. Beiser notes the complex and controversial history of Hegel’s text. He makes a case that this English-language translation by E. S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson is still the most reliable one.
"Originally published in 1840 as Geschichte der philosophie; Reprinted from the original 1896 translation published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Treeubner & Co., Ltd., London"--T.p. verso.
G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel writes: "What the history of Philosophy shows us is a succession of noble minds, a gallery of heroes of thought, who, by the power of Reason, have penetrated into the being of things, of nature and of spirit, into the Being of God, and have won for us by their labours the highest treasure, the treasure of reasoned knowledge." Volume 2 of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, titled Plato and the Platonists for this Bison Books edition, introduces the most renowned disciple of Socrates and the theory of Platonic forms before moving to Plato's disciple, Aristotle, whose advance to scientific thinking is carefully detailed. The subsequent increasing systematization and sophistication of philosophy leads to a discussion of the Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics. The first period in the history of philosophy comes to maturity with Plotinus in the third century B.C.
This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816-18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg years marked Hegel's return to university teaching and represented an important transition in his life and thought. The translated texts include his important reassessment of the works of the philosopher F. H. Jacobi, whose engagement with Spinozism, especially, was of decisive significance for the philosophical development of German Idealism. They also include his most influential writing about contemporary political events, his essay on the constitutional assembly in his native Württemberg, which was written against the background of the dramatic political and social changes occurring in post-Napoleonic Germany. The translators have provided an introduction and notes that offer a scholarly commentary on the philosophical and political background of Hegel's Heidelberg writings.