![]() Hegel's theory of the dialectic was the inspiration for the Dialectical Materialism of Karl Marx and Marxism. Hegel saw "Geist" (the absolute mind or spirit) developing through history, with each period having a Zeitgeist (spirit of the age). ![]() Hegel was also probably the first philosopher to think of history itself as a dialectical process, in which reality can be understood through a three-stage dialectic, starting with the indeterminate concept (or thesis) to the determinate concept (or antithesis) and then to the resolution (or synthesis). Hegel developed his theory out of the Subjective Idealism (or Transcendental Idealism) of Immanuel Kant. He advocated a kind of historically-minded Absolute Idealism, in which the universe would realize its spiritual potential through the development of human society, and in which mind and nature can be seen as two abstractions of one indivisible whole Spirit. His works are considered notoriously difficult to understand, but his philosophy can perhaps be summed up by the motto "the rational alone is real". Hegel's major works include "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807), "Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences" (1817) and "Philosophy of Right" (1821). It was centered in Germany during the mid-19th Century. ![]() Hegelianism is a philosophical school based on the writings of the German Idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the philosophical tradition that began with him. By Movement / School > Modern > Hegelianism
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