The Philosophy Book

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180 H egel was the single most famous philosopher in Germany during the first half of the 19th century. His central idea was tha ...

181 Human beings, therefore, never begin their existence from scratch, but always within some kind of context—a context that cha ...

182 is dependent upon the nature of the human mind, and does not represent the world as it really is— in other words, the world ...

183 Logic, where he introduces the most general and all-inclusive notion of “pure being”—meaning anything that in any sense coul ...

184 Each stage of world-history is a necessary moment in the Idea of the World Spirit. Georg Hegel about this method of philosop ...

185 German history had reached its end point in the Prussian state, according to Hegel. However, there was a strong feeling in f ...

186 EVERY MAN TAKES THE LIMITS OF HIS OWN FIELD OF VISION FOR THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788–1860) IN CONTEXT ...

187 See also: Empedocles 330 ■ John Locke 130–33 ■ Immanuel Kant 164–71 ■ Georg Hegel 178–85 ■ Friedrich Nietzsche 214–21 Arthur ...

188 differently. It is one world, with two aspects: Will and Representation. This is most easily evidenced by our bodies, which ...

189 See also: Thales of Miletus 22–23 ■ Georg Hegel 178–85 ■ Karl Marx 196–203 T he 19th-century German philosopher Ludwig Feuer ...

190 OVER HIS OWN BODY AND MIND, THE INDIVIDUAL IS SOVEREIGN JOHN STUART MILL (1806–1873) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Political philosophy ...

191 See also: Thomas Hobbes 112–15 ■ John Locke 130–33 ■ Jeremy Bentham 174 ■ Bertrand Russell 236–39 ■ Karl Popper 262–65 ■ Joh ...

192 turned his attention to moral philosophy, particularly Bentham’s theories of utilitarianism. He had been struck by the elega ...

193 through intellectual and cultural pursuits. In the “happiness equation” he gives more weight to higher, intellectual pleasur ...

194 ANXIETY IS THE DIZZINESS OF FREEDOM SØREN KIERKEGAARD (1813–1855) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Metaphysics APPROACH Existentialism BEFO ...

195 Hamlet is caught on the edge of a terrible choice: whether to kill his uncle or leave his father’s death unavenged. Shakespe ...

THE HISTORY OF ALL HITHERTO EXISTING SOCIETY IS THE HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLES KARL MARX (1818 –1883) ...

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198 C an the complex history of the human species be reduced to a single formula? One of the greatest thinkers of the 19th centu ...