One
of my favourite philosophers, Friedrich Hegel was born on this date, 27 August
1770. He would have been 243 years old if he was alive today! I will post a
quote from him.
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Friedrich Hegel
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QUOTE: What experience and history teach is this — that
nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon
any lessons they might have drawn from it. [Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)]
AUTHOR: Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel (German: [ˈɡeɔɐ̯k ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡəl];
August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, and a major
figure in German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality
revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental
philosophy and Marxism. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical
framework, or "system", of Absolute idealism to account in an
integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature, the subject
and object of knowledge, psychology, the state, history, art, religion, and
philosophy. In particular, he developed the concept that mind or spirit
manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately
integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the
other. Examples of such contradictions include those between nature and freedom,
and between immanence and transcendence.
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