He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. —George Santayana, on Hegel Philosophers are hardly ever cynical manipulators of their readers’ minds. They do ...

Upanishadic neti, neti, not this, not that, and Hegel's dialectic, while distinct, share a common thread: the use of negation and movement to arrive at a deeper understanding of reality. Though ...

But deep intellectual differences also underpinned their animus. Whereas Hegel’s critics largely promoted individualism, the famous author of The Phenomenology of the Spirit taught that fitting ...

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There has been much excitement at the discovery of a treasure trove of notes from the lectures of the great German idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. The several thousand pages date from Hegel’s time ...

Since 2020, I have been serving in the editorial collective of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. My research is twofold: I am currently working on issues and themes pertaining to ...

Hegel’s analysis of humanity as stumbling from one horror to the next remains all too relevant. By Richard Bourke Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has a claim to being the greatest philosopher of the ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. In his day, the 18th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was what we ...

Society and the world are dialectical, and understanding the core of dialectics are crucial for developing revolutionary theory ...