GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) ART AND DIALECTICS When one thinks of Hegelian aesthetics, it is most often in relation to the art historians who were impacted by his philosophy and his central concept of the dialectic, or a method of thinking in terms of...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) DIALECTICS Within the architectonic model, Kant’s categories were isolated from each other and appeared to impose themselves upon the structure. However useful the categories were in explaining Kant’s theory of human reason,...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) It has been said that all philosophy is simply a series of footnotes on the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. It can also be said that all modern philosophy is a series of footnotes no the work of Emmanuel...
KANT AND CRITICAL REASON The eighteenth century British philosopher, David Hume, suggested that we believe that there is a connection between cause and effect. For example. fire causes flame and results in an effect of smoke. Were it not for this belief system, we...
CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (1789) Kant’s Copernican Revolution This concept of critique was central to Enlightenment philosophy, coming from the Greek word “krinein”, meaning to “separate” or to “discern”, which is the origin of the word...
AMERICAN REVOLUTION as ENLIGHTENMENT Social and Political Change Supported by the revolution in industrialized production, which enriched a new class of entrepreneurs, several important political revolutions cemented the middle class into power. Made by “new men,”...
