Medieval & Modern Philosophy · 19th century
G. W. F. Hegel
The philosopher of history and becoming: the Phenomenology of Spirit finished as Napoleon took Jena, dialectic and contradiction, the master–slave relation, Geist and history as the progress of freedom, and his heirs from Marx to Fukuyama.
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Prereqs: Kant. Next: Schopenhauer; Kierkegaard; Karl Marx. Sources: Hegel, *Phenomenology of Spirit* (1807), *Philosophy of Right* (1820), *Lectures on the Philosophy of History*; Peter Singer, *Hegel: A Very Short Introduction*.Next: 1. Life