Hegel Vs Kierkegaard Analysis

Hegel is committed to dialectical progress of time, and he is a determist. He believes that history follows a specific path that is predetermined by the purposeful movement through time. Nothing happens by chance according to Hegel, which eliminates things happening by chance yet contingency does consist in the world. Therefore, he believed that if anything did happen by chance it did not matter. Hegel seeks the first principles of nature, and does not judge through objective facts or outside sources. He only determines his beliefs based on his own inspiration, and his own individual reflections. To Hegel facts are very important to theory, and there should be some kind of evidence to confirm his philosophy. Unlike Kierkegaard, who believes Existentialism which is the belief that humans define their own meaning in life, and there is no purpose for existence. Hegel believes that God is the hire power, and that all of history and existence are part of Gods development. Again, very different from Kierkegaard who questioned the …show more content…
According to Hegel the first level of ethical life is based on practice, looking at the logical practice of people as they are already living amongst each other. It is not at all a state of nature, but rather a state of day to day practice by people. The second level of ethical life is looks at the spirituality of a person, and the spiritual shaping of them. According to Hegel’s beliefs the spirit and the body coincide. There are three social classes, honesty which is commercial class, military which is courage and peasantry which is class of trust. In the classes of Hegel they are completely different the social classes of our times. In current times social classes are primarily based on wealth and statues, but Hegel’s classes are based on ethical categories. According to theory Military class must governed above wall, which does make sense as it takes courage to