Lectures on the History of Philosophy

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The Lectures on the History of Philosophy ({{langx|de|Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie}}) were delivered by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in 1805-6, 1816-1818, 1819, 1820, 1825–26, 1827–28, 1829–30, and 1831, just before he died in November of that year.{{sfn|Walsh|1965}}[https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24423-lectures-on-the-history-of-philosophy-1825-6-volume-i-introduction-and-oriental-philosophy/ Robert R. Williams, University of Illinois at Chicago – ndpr.nd.edu]

Overview

Hegel's lecture notes were edited by his student, Karl Ludwig Michelet in 1833, and revised in 1840-1842. An English translation was provided by Elizabeth Haldane in 1892.{{sfn|Walsh|1965}}{{sfn|Hegel|1996}}

In it, he outlined his ideas on the major philosophers. He saw consciousness as progressing from an undifferentiated pantheism of the East to a more individualistic understanding culminating in the freedom of the Germanic era.

In his lectures Hegel cites extensively the voluminous histories of philosophy written in Germany after 1740; among them: Johann Jakob Brucker's Historia critica philosophiae, 6 vols. (1742–1767; "Critical History of Philosophy"); Johann Buhle's Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie, 8 vols. (1796–1804; "Textbook on the History of Philosophy"); Dietrich Tiedemann's Geist der spekulativen Philosophie von Thales bis Berkeley, 6 vols. (1791–1797; "The Spirit of Speculative Philosophy from Thales to Berkeley"); and Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann's Geschichte der Philosophie, 11 vols. (1789–1819; "History of Philosophy").

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  • {{cite book|last1=Hegel|first1=Georg Wilhelm Friedrich|author-link=Georg Hegel|editor-last= Haldane|editor-first=Elizabeth Sanderson|editor-link=Elizabeth Haldane|title=Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie|trans-title=Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy, 3 vols.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1oQAQAAIAAJ|date= 1996|orig-year=1892 Kegan Paul|publisher=Humanities Press International|isbn=978-0-391-03957-5}} ([https://archive.org/details/lecturesonhisto00hegegoog full text at] Internet Archive Vol. 1) [https://archive.org/details/lecturesonhisto01butlgoog/page/n7 Vol. 2] [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.190961/page/n1 Vol. 3]
  • {{cite journal |last1=Walsh |first1=W. H. |title=Hegel on the History of Philosophy |journal=History and Theory |date=1965 |volume=5 |pages=67 |doi=10.2307/2504119|jstor=2504119 }}

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