Philosophy 520, “Hegel”

Hegel Discussion (Reactions to current assignment)

A WebBoard for students in Philosophy 520. Questions and comments posted here will be available to all students in the course.

Hegel by Hypertext

This site has HTML versions of Hegel's  Science of Logic and  Logic from the  Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (1830). The former is marked to show the underlining in Lenin's copy of the work. There are also HTML versions of Engel's  Socialism, Utiopian, and Scientific and  Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, as well as numerious items of Marxist literature. Andy Blunden also provides a glossary of Hegelian terms and some introductory commentary.

Phänomenologie des Geistes

An HTML version of the Phänomenologie des Geistes, with clickable table of contents.

The Phenomenology of Mind, trans. Baillie

An HTML version of  The Phenomenology of Mind in J. B. Baillie's translation (1910, revised 1931 & 1949). Baillie’s translation is generally more literary than Miller’s. This version preserves the pagination of the Baillie translation and has a clickable table of contents..

Home of the Sweet Absolute

A curious site devoted to discussion of the  Phenomenology of Spirit. Previous discussions seem largely to have been between a couple of persons, but anyone is invited to join the conversation.

Hegel, Introduction to The Philosophy of History

Hegel’s Philosophy of History is largely a reconstruction from student notes taken over several offerings of his letures on that topic, but this Introduction is largely from Hegel's own hand.

Hegel, Introduction to The Philosophy of History

Another site offering Hegel’s Philosophy of History, here with numbered paragraphs for easier reference.

Johann Stallo on Hegel’s conception of the goal of history

An American Hegelian’s interpretation of Hegel’s conception of history’s ultimate end.

Gustav Muller, “The Hegel Legend of ‘Thesis―Antithesis―Synthesis’”

Muller carefully undermines the common conception of Hegelian dialectic as being structured triadically by showing the origins of this misinterpretation.

Franz Joseph Gall on Phrenology (1798)

The foremost proponent of phrenology explains his system. For much more information about this “most popular Victorian science” see John van Wyhe’s The History of Phrenology on the Web. The earlier work of Johann Caspar Lavater, Von der Physiognomik (1772) is also on the web, but only in German.

Jacob Boehme Resources

Here are found bibliographies, a surprising number of texts, and commentaries.