G.F. Hegel (1770-1831)

Addressed most pressing questions of:

the absolute, the ineffable soul, Art,

and Religion

Invented Phenomenology

-Based on Kant's phenomena 'subjective' set out to lay bare the naked truths

'Reasons' replace 'causes' as  response to Hume's critique

Dialectics of mind and world

anticipates (influences) Freud's notions of ego (& id), stages of development, ...

-Soul develops historically through stages  'beginning of spirit'-mere being, unable to reflect on self  nor assimilate objects

through the acquisition of sensuous consciousness, sense perception, and intellect

 


 

 

 

Idea Nature

Spirit
(Geist)

 

 

Being

Essence Notion

 

 

Quality

Quantity

Measure

 

 

 

Being Determined Being Being for Self

 

 

Being Nothing Becoming

 

 

 

 

-Influenced Marx, Freud, Piaget, Erikson,...