Tags: Philosopher.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German: [ˈɡeɔɐ̯k ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡəl]; August 27 1770 – November 14 1831) was a German philosopher and a major figure in German Idealism.
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- birth date
- 1770-08-27
- birth place
- Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg
- death date
- 1831-11-14
- death place
- Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
- era
- 19th-century philosophy
- influenced
- Francis Fukuyama, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, Peter Singer, Søren Kierkegaard, Theodor W. Adorno, Charles Taylor (philosopher), Alexandre Kojève, Giovanni Gentile, Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher), F. H. Bradley, John Russon, Friedrich Engels, Jacques Derrida, Eduard Gans, Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Benedetto Croce, Friedrich Wilhelm Carové, Bruno Bauer, Heinrich Heine, Johann Eduard Erdmann, Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, Karl Barth, Karl Ludwig Michelet, Gillian Rose, Robert B. Pippin, David Strauss, Ludwig Feuerbach, Kuno Fischer, Hans Küng, Wilhelm Dilthey, Robert Brandom, Arthur Danto, Emil Fackenheim, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Kaufmann (philosopher), Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs, James Doull, György Lukács
- influenced by
- Adam Smith, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Heraclitus, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Plato, René Descartes, Neoplatonism, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Hölderlin, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- LCCN Id
- n/79/21767
- main interest
- Metaphysics, Political philosophy, Philosophy of history, Logic
- notableIdea
- Aufheben, Absolute idealism
- region
- Western philosophy