Essays Tagged: "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"

Early and Later Writings of Karl Marx. Compares the classical works of Karl Marx and looks at some of his most well known theories. Includes works cited.

ritings (Tucker xxvii). The early writings of Marx spent much time heavily criticizing the works of Georg Hegel and also Ludwig Feuerbach, but it was Hegel that had the most influence on what was to l ... x, Karl, and Frederick Engels. 1986. The German Ideology. New York:International Publishers.Ritzer, George. 2000. Classical Sociological Theory. Toronto: McGraw - Hill.Smelser, Neil J., ed. 1973. Karl ...

(8 pages) 722 0 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

(1818-1883) explained historical change by using and adapting a theory that was first developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831). According to Hegel's theory, in any period of history t ...

(3 pages) 339 0 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Cultural Revolution Study Notes

studied the relationship between the physiology of the nervous system and human behavior. In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt, a German philosopher, founded one of the first laboratories of experimental psycholog ...

(9 pages) 204 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Karl Marx: Alienation

ortance, because to hi man was above all Homo Faber, Man the Maker. "The outstanding achievement of Hegel's Phenomenology . . . is that Hegel grasps the self-creation of man as a process. . . and that ...

(4 pages) 246 0 3.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Hegel

HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher who lived from 1770-1831. Hegel believes that ...

(4 pages) 103 0 2.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

That history contains errors will not come as news to a person who has reflected on the topic.

of England;Thomas Carlyle,The French Revolution;Francis Parkman,France and England in North America;George Macula Trevelyan,British History in the Nineteenth Century;Will Durant,The Story of Civilizat ...

(16 pages) 119 2 3.8 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Analyse Hegel's description of Symbolic art.

Section CVAnalysis of Symbolic artThis section starts with Hegel explaining how, when the Idea of the divine caused Art- Symbolic Art to be specific, due to th ... xpression. It is "rather a mere search after plastic portrayal". It can be concluded therefore that Hegel didn't believe that Symbolic Art even partially succeeded in its aim of representation.It coul ... ranscendent nature of Classical and Romantic Art.The problem with Symbolic Art arises, according to Hegel because the "Idea has its outward shape external to itself", meaning that the Idea has not bee ...

(5 pages) 61 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

What does Hegel mean by 'recognition' (Annerkenung)? What role does this notion play in the master/slave dialectic?

What does Hegel mean by 'recognition' (Annerkenung)? What role does this notion play in the master/slave diale ... I will then discuss the various interpretations on the dialectic in order to try to understand what Hegel was trying to say. It is in the development of the understanding of the dialectic that meaning ... eloped out of the ideas of Fichte - in his search for freedom and rights - and is representative of Hegel's general philosophy. Hegel uses the dialectic as a step towards freedom as the ultimate goal. ...

(14 pages) 68 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

What did Marx mean by the statement that 'Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons'?

thus be seen to represent the struggle between the classes. The idea of class struggle was based on Hegel's dialectics. The term 'dialectics' often represents the view that conflict, antagonism or con ... oach by Marx was that of dialectical materialism. Marx was very much influenced by the dialectic of Hegel, but rejected Hegel's idealism. Instead Marx emphasized material conditions, that is economic ...

(9 pages) 109 0 1.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Bourgeois Ideology

Political Phil.The Bourgeois IdeologyHegel was the first to know, "every philosophy...belongs to its own time and is caught in that time' ... ical argumentation to a deeper penetration of its own time. This is why the key to what is alive in Hegel's thought lies in Marx's critique of it (Marx-Engels Reader p. 5).First, there must be an unde ... els Reader p. 5).First, there must be an understanding of Marx's critique. It is closely bound with Hegel's idea of sublation, or aufheben - which is to negate, and thereby to preserve the inner truth ...

(7 pages) 123 2 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhem Fredrick Hegel was born in August 27, 1770, in southwest Germany, in a town called Stut ...

(3 pages) 118 2 4.7 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

An Application of Hegel's Dialectic on the Development of the Critics' Beliefs

An Application of Hegel's Dialectic on the Development of the Critics' BeliefsIn order to understand our modern litera ... s development is discussed in this paper depending on the dialectic theory which was contributed by Hegel; and then it will be applied on a group of critics to understand how their beliefs were develo ... . The critics are Plato, Aristotle, Sidney, Dryden, and Behn.The dialectic theory is established by Hegel. This philosophical theory is based on the historical development of the main beliefs of a cer ...

(11 pages) 79 1 4.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Idealism

nge and which can be known only by reason--constitutes true reality.The 18th-century epistemologist George Berkeley was one of the major exponents of idealism. He held that the object of knowledge is ...

(1 pages) 101 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Comment on the phylosophical synthesis of karl marx

t Marx had really produced nothing new in thephilosophical sphere. Such a well-known philosopher as Wilhelm Wundt inhis Introduction to Philosophy wrote "This lack of clarity in itsmetaphysical premis ... uestions did not interestMarx (a hyper-foolish statement which academic philosophy expressedthrough Wilhelm Wundt). This means that profound theory advances thetheoretical argument which exposes the m ...

(23 pages) 97 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Is Hegels' philosphy of history valid?

under the constraints of an orderly and systematic society. For that reason it is no surprise when George Martin argues that today we have "never been freer" and thus the spirit has to have progresse ...

(10 pages) 55 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

On Hegel And Knowing

On Hegel and Knowing For more than fourteen centuries, scholars staunchly believed that the sun ... w considered absolute knowledge. How can we be sure that our knowledge is the truth? G.W.F. Hegel asked the same question in his dense and esoteric Phenomenology of Spirit. He wrote: "The road ... is taken to be what it was in the first place" (pg. 49). This whole process is, according to Hegel, "certainty" or Absolute knowing. Hegel says that confusion and doubt are necessary in a ...

(5 pages) 1042 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Kant And Hegel

2001.Dr Robert Wicks, Kant and Hegel Course book for 2001.Prof. Bob Solomon, In the Spirit of Hegel.George Plimpton Adams, The mystical Element in Hegel's Early Theological Writings, University of Cal ...

(12 pages) 21 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Hegel and the national heritag

In Hegel's political theory the state is seen not only as an instrument of legal power, but also as the ... n to bring about important institutional changes under the guise of enhancing the national interest.Hegel emphasizes the power of national loyalty by talking of the nation as if it were an individual. ... of speech, one can say that America is generous, Germany is industrious, and France is amorous. But Hegel means a great deal more than this. First of all, he intends to say that "national spirit," as ...

(15 pages) 18 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Eurocentrism of G. W. Hegel.

1900, 91.� H. OLELA, From Ancient Africa to Ancient Greece, The Black Heritage Corporation, Georgia 1981, 21.� C. NEUGEBAUER, "Hegel and Kant. A Refutation of their Racism'' in Quest. A ...

(7 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jan/2013

Subjects: Art Essays