Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Phenomenology of Spirit is a philosophical work that Hegel wrote and published in German, standing as one of several major texts he produced across his career.
Hegel was born on August 27, 1770, in Stuttgart, a citizen of the Kingdom of Württemberg. He received his early schooling at the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium before going on to study at the Tübinger Stift and later at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He built his professional life as a philosopher, logician, philosopher of law, university teacher, and writer, composing all his works in German. Beyond The Phenomenology of Spirit, he wrote the Science of Logic, the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, and Lectures on the Philosophy of History. His work became associated with German idealism and with the distinct intellectual movement that came to bear his name, Hegelianism.
Hegel died on November 14, 1831, in Berlin. Among the honors he received was the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class. The movement of Hegelianism, with which he was associated during his lifetime, continued to carry his name forward after his death.
Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's insights on:
Worship is the community's cult in its purest, most inward, most subjective form--a cult in which objectivity is, as it were, consumed and digested, while the objective content, now stripped of its objectivity, has become a possession of mind and feeling.
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the, consciousness of freedom.
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning. One orients one’s attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony – periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
The system of logic is the realm of shadows, the world of simple essentialities, freed of all sensuous concretion. To study this science, to dwell and to labor in this realm of shadows, is the absolute culture and discipline of consciousness.
By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.