Analysis of Hegel’s Philosophy in the Light of German Idealism
Author : Soumen Pal
Abstract :
In the second half of the eighteenth century, German Philosophy came for a while to dominate European philosophy. It change the way in which not only Europeans, but people all over the world, conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion, human history, politics and the structure of human mind. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was most dominant western philosopher and is the greatest German idealist.
Hegel’s philosophy is generally known as absolute idealism. He was one of the greatest systematic thinkers in the history of western philosophy. Hegel’s system was an historical culmination of all previous philosophical thought. Hegel’s philosophical system is divided into the science of logic, the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of spirit.
Among the German idealists, Hegel attempted to formulate a complete system of philosophy that would account for the differences and similarities of all previous philosophies. Hegel’s principal achievement lies in his development of a distinction articulation of idealism sometimes termed absolute idealism. His published his first independent contributions to German Idealism, ‘The difference between Fichte’s and Schelling’s system of philosophy in 1801. In this book Hegel distinguishes Fichte’s subjective idealism from Schelling’s objective idealism. The absolute has been described as a system of categories arranged dialectically in triads.
Keywords :
Spirit, metaphysics, idealism, freedom, right, rationality
