Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel, dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist as well as praised as one of modern philosophy's greatest thinkers. Special attention is devoted to interpretation problems in this compilation of his work.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:  Biography

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To come to Hegel's philosophy one starts with Kant and proceeds through Fichte and Schelling. Hegal departed from the Fichte-Schelling "Ego-nonEgo" analysis by stating that it was reason that should take over, not your reason or not my reason, but the World Reason, Universal Consciousness; an Absolute. This Absolute while it governs the individual (the Ego) and all the world around the individual (the nonEgo), it is, nonetheless part of, or synonymous with, Reason (Ego) and Reality (nonEgo). This, in my short study, is the best I can make of Hegel, and if these statements are confusing to you, - you have company: "Hegelian terminology is cumbersome and defies analysis, except on its own terms."

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Hegel by HyperText:
Readings of Hegel's Logic

G. W. F. Hegel

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Few philosophers have had a more baleful influence on modern philosophy and politics than Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume II, Hegel and Marx [Princeton, 1971], Karl Popper considers the depths of nonsense that issued from Hegel's pen...

Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

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Analytical Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Abstract Right
I: Property
II: Contract
III: Wrong
Morality
Ethical Life
I: The Family
II: Civil Society
III: The State
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	Marx's 1843 Critique of the Philosophy of Right
	Marx 'On Jewish Question'
	Marx's 1844 Introduction

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