Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

the third of nine children living in a middle class home. He attended private school where he joined a radical group later becoming the president. While studying in London with his wife Jenny von Westphalen he started reading Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich influenced Karl to do a lot of his writings that he would become famous for today. During his years of writing scholars ignored Karl Marx and most of his…

There are many methods of teaching the various subjects taught in today’s educational system. One such method is the dialectic approach of Idealism. The dialectic approach can be applied to many different areas of teaching to enhance the educational delivery and the resulting understanding of the students. Idealism is possibly the oldest Western philosophy we know and study in the present day. It traces back at least to Ancient Greece and Plato. It was once the dominant philosophy of Western…

1.1 In The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as enabling “us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society” (Mills [1959] 2000:6). The sociological imagination facilitates individuals to locate themselves within society, the historical context of their society, and recognize the other individuals that are in his or her same state. “The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical…

The Lord and the Slave According to Georg Friedrich Hegel in his Lordship and Bondage, all conscious being fall into a “new relationship” of “the Lord” and “the Slave.” (Hegel, 32) Proving that this relationship is still being seen we use it to analyze the relationships between men and women in Glaspell’s Trifles. Throughout the story, the theme of master and slave are presented through clues that are shown through the relationships between men and women in the story. The first clear clue…

(1971) who reported on the various philosophical perspectives of a Delphi study (Tapio et al., 2011, p.1626). They have categorised these perspectives according to the following philosophies of John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, George Hegel and Edgar Singer (Hammer and Boggs, 2011, p.254-256). In addition, Mitroff and Turoff (1975) have also emphasised…

German heritage explain their own thoughts and theories upon the subject. The first, George Wilhelm Hegel- a German noble paved his way into philosophical history in the early 1700’s. In contrast, Friedrich Nietzsche was a German Philosopher whose peak of fame was evident in the 1870’s-80s. Although, both from different time periods and upbringings, they still manage to have similar viewpoints. Both Hegel and Nietzsche utilize their atheistic views, nihilism, and belief in naturalistic forces…

Similar to religion, the word empathy has the potential to relate to any number of entities when viewed through a Marxist lens. Merriam-Webster defines empathy as “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience full communicated in an objectively explicit manner.” This emotional bond can connect a person to anything, not exclusively a fellow human…

The historical dialectic materialist approach represents a key feature of Marxist thought. It is so vital to his explanations of history that it has often been seen as being synonymous with Marx himself. If one wants to understand history as a dynamic, and historical process, it is essential to look at it materially. Ultimately, the historical dialectic materialist approach allows us to make sense of why things are the way they are in a certain era. Three concepts go into explaining the…

2) a,b : This passage is taken from "What is Enlightenment", by Immanuel Kant, from the first page of the essay. Kant is criticizing the over dependence of a grown up individual for nurturing and caretaking and possibly resisting the responsibilities brought to him. He says these deficiencies are caused by laziness and cowardice. Kant states that enlightenment is a man freeing himself from self-imposed nonage. He moves on explaining the reasons why this nonage takes place, and then moves on…

George Hegel, a widely regarded German philosopher in the nineteenth century, was ignorant about the significance of Africa as a content and of Africans as people. Africa has been a hotbed of history since the beginning of the world. There were as many ancient civilizations as there were in Europe in Africa. Also, the languages, religions, and customs of Africa were unique to Africa throughout history just like the languages, religions, and customs of Europe. All of this data, however, did not…