Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Dating back to June 14th, 1775, America was in dire need of a fighting force for means to protect the homefront. Its roots are based on the Continental Army which was established to fight the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783. The Revolutionary War was a way to formally establish the nation of the United States of America. With the primary mission of the Army to protect, defend, and sustain the American people. Any and all American military operations now fell under the responsibility…

The Battle of Monmouth and Molly Pitcher There was not a decisive victory during the June 28th 1778 Battle of Monmouth for the Continental Army or the British forces due to the toxic leadership of Major General Charles Lee and many of the British forces suffering from heat related injuries. It was not one of the bloodiest battles of the revolutionary war; there were only around two hundred and thirty casualties’ total, and ninety-six of those where from heat stroke due to the heat wave…

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.” This is a thought-provoking outlook on Kierkegaard’s conception of faith and the knight of faith, as it truly highlights the extent one (in this case Abraham) must go, in order to perform an absolute duty to God. However, the passage in Luke 14:26 is very much characteristic of Augustinian theological thought and expression, as one can see in the evident loathing of human existences and the emphasises on human…

undisciplined in ways, such as random capitalization and using an unsystematic style of writing. Johann Gottfried von Herder was a philosopher of his time. His level of influence has impacted everyone from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whose developed philosophy uses parts of Herder’s ideas, to Friedrich Nietzsche,…

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in Phenomenology of Spirit, discusses a “Lordship and Bondage” dialectic, in which the politics of recognition are explored through mutual recognition. Simone de Beauvoir, in her introduction to The Second Sex, uses Hegel’s dialectic to emphasize the master-slave relationship between men and women; women, like the bondsman, become “Others” through binaries in relation to men, forcing them into a being-for-other consciousness (Beauvoir 14-15). Similarly, Frantz…

Simone de Beauvoir begins the opening of Volume II in her book The Second Sex with the line “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” (de Beauvoir, 1949/2010, p. 283) In this line, she summarizes her viewpoint that femininity is a societal construct. By this, she means that it is not a biological, psychological, or more importantly, intellectual one, but that it is rather formed by society. Specifically, that an individual is qualified to subjectivity regardless of their gender and that…

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant purportedly sets out to bridge the gap between rationalism and empiricism arguing that knowledge exists both a priori and a posteriori; that is through experience (sensible intuition) and independent of experience. In doing so, Kant hopes to get closer to a formal system and/or science of philosophy. Insofar as establishing philosophy as a science is possible, Kant believed that this system could stem from a small set of mutually dependent principles. After…

was familiar with the grand social theories of his era. He was a student of the most prominent German Idealist philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Early in his career, Marx drew on Hegel’s ideas, but later he constructed his own in opposition to them. From Hegel he derived insights into the human construction of the social world and of human reason itself. But while Hegel attributed social change to a metaphysical force, a “World Spirit,” Marx eventually adopted a…

During Marx 's years at the university in Berlin, the ideals and works of Hegel were widely popular within philosophical discourse. Marx spent a great deal of time in his early career adopting as well as critiquing the views of Hegel. Perhaps his most famous criticism was his critique of Hegel 's Philosophy of Right. Here we see Marx 's view differ greatly from that of Hegel in regards to the Prussian Constitutional Monarchy. Hegel was known to be an idealist while Marx was more of a…

No other thinker had such a great influence upon Kierkegaard as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, not even Hegel, the German idealist who seems to have heavily influenced the Danish intellectual circles of the time as well as Kierkegaard himself. Kierkegaard envisaged his own task as a Socratic one; he took upon himself being the gadfly of Denmark, just as Socrates was the gadfly of Athens. It has been pointed out by George Pattison that Kierkegaard sought orientation in Socrates, and…