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Online biography by Peter Landry at blupete.com. Excerpt:
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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Essay by Kelly Ross. Excerpt:
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...
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