The 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Keywords:

jubilee, G.W.F. Hegel, thinker, "tree of freedom", the Great French Revolution.

Abstract

Addressing the work of Hegel in connection with his 250th anniversary, it should be noted that he, although an ethnical German, was educated and worked on the terrains of his nation, but his world outlook and human standing was framed mainly by the French revolution with its slogans of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Hegel had his peculiar manner of argumentation with respect to the concept of freedom. French enlighteners were admittedly concerned with the issue of liberty and even were ideologists of the French revolution, but they attempted to justify the liberty using the so called natural right, laws of science on nature, whereas Hegel went another way: he justified the idea of liberty by addressing the history of philosophy as a quintessence of the culture. Every aspect of his works is a demonstration of the methodology of dialectic synthesis and antithesis as a way to deal with problems of human consciousness, logic and thinking, organization of human activity in accordance with natural and positive right. Works of Hegel are written in a language standing out for its multivalued semantics, combination of philosophic and theological views. It caused ambiguous perceptions of Hegel’s philosophy by his contemporaries and later generations of thinkers, as well as by a broader intellectual community.

Published

2020-10-07

How to Cite

Ryzhko, L. V. (2020). The 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Nauka Ta Naukoznavstvo, (2(108), 154–155. Retrieved from https://nasu-periodicals.org.ua/index.php/sofs/article/view/8800

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Section

Jubilees and memorial dates