Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) Idealist philosopher, born in Stuttgart, Germany.

 

He studied theology at Tubingen, and in 1801 edited with Schelling the Kritische Journal der Philosophie (1802-3, Critical Journal of Philosophy), in which he outlined his system with its emphasis on reason rather than the Romantic intuitionism of Schelling, which he attacked in his first major work, Ph