Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Essays

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegel was born in Stuttgart,Germany on August 27,1770.He was born as a son of government clerk whose name was George Ludwig Hegel.Hegel was the eldest of three children.He was brought up in a Protestant pietism ambience.Hegel was already studied about Latin before he began school by his mother.He was concerned about Greek roman classics,literatüre and philosophy.Christiane,his sister,and Hegel were very attached each other and Christiane was very jealous about Hegel’s

  • Friedrich Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment

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    19 Nov. 1998. Web. 24 Mar. 2012. . Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Thomas Common. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. New York: Modern Library, 1900’s. Print. "Nietzsche's Idea of an Overman and Life from His Point of View." Ccrma.stanford.edu. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. . "Nihilism- Abandoning Values and Knowledge." Nihilism. 2002. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. . Sullivan, Stephen O. "Moral Nihilism." Moral Nihilism. 2002. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. . Wicks, Robert. "Friedrich Nietzsche.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • Theme Analysis of Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz

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    News & Reviews: San Francisco - "Anna in the Tropics" - 3/2333/06." Talkin' Broadway - Broadway & Off-Broadway theatre discussion, cast recording news, reviews of musicals and drama. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. "Henry Miller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Quotes." BrainyQuote. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. "McCarter Theatre - Anna in the Tropics Study Guide." McCarter Theatre. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014.

  • Master-Slave Rhetoric In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

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    Kurt Vonnegut once observed, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be” (“Kurt Vonnegut Quotes”). In his writings on the self, philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel expresses a very similar sentiment. Therefore, it is no great surprise that an interesting example of Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic is found in Kurt Vonnegut’s classic short story “Harrison Bergeron.” Vonnegut’s story is set in a dystopian future where, after the passage of “the 211th, 212th, and

  • 19th Century Theories in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

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    19th Century Theories in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment "I teach you the Superman. Man is something that has to be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?" These words said by Friedrich Nietzsche encompass the theories present in Dostoevsky's nineteenth century novel, Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky, living a life of suffering himself, created the character of Raskolnikov with the preconceptions of his own sorrowful and struggling life. Throughout his exile in Siberia from

  • The Difference Between Rights and Laws

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    ... middle of paper ... ...Trans. Joe Sachs. Newbury, MA: Focus Pub./R. Pullins, 2002. Print. Aristotle. Politics. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2000. Print. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. "Third Part: Ethical Life III. The State." Hegel's Philosophy of Right: The State. Hegel-by-HyperText Home Page @ Marxists.org, n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. . Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Trans. C. B. Macpherson. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1986. Print. Locke, John. Second Treatise of

  • Hegel's aesthetics

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    to several surveys which were voted on by fans and industry insiders. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel viewed art as a framework to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature. There are three parts of Hegel's philosophical account of art and beauty. These parts include ideal beauty, the different forms that beauty takes in history, and the different arts in which beauty is encountered. Hegel believes that art is more beautiful than nature. This is because that

  • Capitalism and Proletariats

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    adding one’s labor to it. Critics of social contract theories aren’t simply seeking to negate the theories of social contract theories, but in many cases are seeking to enhance them and show how they can be applied to certain principles. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one critic of social contract theory, who begins his work with an alternative to foundational state of nature conjectures used by social contract theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Karl Marx then critiques and refines

  • Francis Fukuyama The End Of History Analysis

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    state all contradictions are resolved and all man’s needs are satisfied, and therefore there are no large conflicts and no need for statesmen. All that remains is the economic activity. Fukuyama discusses the work of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who first proposed this change, as well as the work of French philosopher Alexandre Kojeve, who gives more recent interpretations of Hegel’s ideas. Hegel’s main indicator of the triumph of the democratic system was the Fren... ... middle

  • Hegel's Contradiction in Human History

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    change.” Heraclitus’s works have influenced later philosophers and thinkers, including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher of the late 18th and early 19th century. In order to define “contradiction”, I found it is understandable to use Hegel’s principle of non-contradiction, which has been studied for a long time. As Horst Althaus says in his Hegel: An Intellectual Biography, “If it is true, as Hegel says, that ‘all things are in themselves contradictory’, then the principle of non-contradiction

  • Fukuyama's The End of History

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    alternate ideologies. Fukuyama discusses the work of past philosophers, particularly Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, to explore the idea of history and its past, present and end. Hegel pinpointed the French Revolution as the start of the liberal and democratic system. He commented on how the triumph of the numerous poor to persuade the rich to give them what they want. When this system began to be realized in the world, Hegel argued that with this ideology major issues that characterized changes in history

  • Understanding The Misunderstood Art From Different Cultures

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    measure of technique? Or is it just a measure of how it affects the viewer? Is good art visually irritating or visually pleasing? The beauty of art is impossible to define, for it's beauty inherently lies in the eye of the beholder. As Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said, "Beauty is the spiritual put into a form." So, in defining beauty, one is attempting to define the spiritual beliefs behind the form.

  • Adoro's Aesthetic Theory

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    Art can be interpreted in varying ways. One could take the Kantian approach by placing special importance on art’s autonomy, while proclaiming that art prescribes to its own set of self-created maxims. These maxims facilitate the creation of normative idea of art, where excellent is determined by how well it meets arts self-created maxims. Therefore the Mona Lisa is only a good painting because it greatly conforms to the maxims of the art normative. Another approach would be the Hegelian interpretation

  • Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche´s Book 5 of The Gay Science

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    Friedrich Nietzsche’s own skepticism symbolized the secular changes in contemporary Western civilization, in which he details mankind’s break away from faith into a new rule of chaos. In Book 5 of The Gay Science, Nietzsche establishes that “God is dead”, meaning that modern Europe has abandoned religion in favor of rationality and science (Nietzsche 279). From this death, the birth of a ‘new’ infinite blossoms in which the world is open to an unlimited amount of interpretations that do not rely

  • Ethical Life In Hegel

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    More importantly, the individual must follow that ethical life, and therefore contribute to the society himself. Ethical life is a stage of self consciousness towards which the individual of Hegel’s time is seen by Hegel to be living within, and to be constructing throughout his life. Hegel would claim that the moral individual would not try to dissociate from this, for his own benefit. He argues that reason is manifested in the benefit of the individual rather than of the social. By this, he means

  • Idealism and Its Struggles to Exist

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    Idealism is difficult to practice in an everyday setting; it is especially hard in a political sense. This paper will discuss several aspects of idealism and its struggles to exist. Introduction Idealism is the attitude of a person who believes that it is possible to live according to very high standards of behavior [Def. 1]. (n.d.). What does that mean exactly? Idealism is the belief of perfection, living by standards or ideals. Idealists believe that the world is a perfect place and that life is

  • The Social and Economic Features of Jabal Nablus and Karl Marx's Methodology

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    In my essay, I will argue that the application of Marx's theory of the separation of town and country on the social and economical developments, which took place in Jabal Nablus during 17-19th century, confirm the existence of other factors, which cultivated overwhelming city's domination over hinterland. I claim that in addition to private property, growing trade with Europe also had a major impact on the conflict between city and country. In order to prove it, I will perform a critical analysis

  • Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic

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    become "for-itself." Not only does Hegel place this unfolding of Life at the very beginning of the dialectical development of self-consciousness, but he characterizes self-consciousness itself as a form of Life and points to the advancement of self-consciousness in the Master/Slave dialectic as the development of Life becoming "for-itself." This paper seeks to delineate this often overlooked thread of dialectical insight as it unfolds in the Master/Slave dialectic. Hegel articulates a vision of the place

  • Comparing Hegel and Kant's Views on Reason

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    Comparing Hegel and Kant's Views on Reason That "the idea pays the ransom of existence and transience—not out of its own pocket, but with the passions of individuals" is an idea with categorizes what Hegel calls "the Cunning of Reason" (35). It is in this way that Hegel describes universal Reason, a force which ensures the end of history in its own self-consciousness. Like Kant, Hegel develops a teleological history which moves toward a specific end, and similar to Kant, this end involves

  • Kierkegaard and P.M. Moller on Immortality

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    Kierkegaard and P.M. Moller on Immortality P.M. Moller and His Relation to S.A. Kierkegaard Although virtually unknown today outside of Danish philosophical circles, Moller (1794-1838) was, during his lifetime, esteemed as one of Denmark’s most loved poets, and beginning in 1831 he held the position of professor of philosophy at the University of Denmark. While at the university Moller taught Moral and Greek Philosophy, and his early philosophical position has been regarded as Hegelian. Kierkegaard