There has been much excitement at the discovery of a treasure trove of notes from the lectures of the great German idealist philosopher GWF Hegel. The several thousand pages date from Hegel’s time at ...

There has been much excitement at the discovery of a treasure trove of notes from the lectures of the great German idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. The several thousand pages date from Hegel’s time ...

Hegel’s analysis of humanity as stumbling from one horror to the next remains all too relevant. By Richard Bourke Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has a claim to being the greatest philosopher of the ...

In 1952 the British don Isaiah Berlin delivered a series of radio lectures for the BBC titled “Freedom and Its Betrayal.” Each discussed a particular philosophical “enemy of human liberty.” Delivered ...

Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, edited by Frederick C. Beiser. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of ...

For German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, life was a process of constant change. The father of the "zeitgeist" was born 250 years ago. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German philosopher ...

Georg Hegel (1770–1831) occupies a rather strange position in the history of philosophical thought: he is both extremely influential and almost impossible for a non-specialist to understand. Is there ...

The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he had once talked a student out of suicide by pointing out to him that the logic of ‘nothing matters’ is very different from that of, for example, ‘nothing ...

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