Hegel dissertation

Reading Hegel gives one a sense that the movement of thought will coincide with a vision of harmony that awaits us at the end of the whole process. Every serious reader of Hegel can bear witness to the intoxication of such moments.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel's principal achievement was his development of a distinctive articulation of idealism, sometimes termed absolute idealism, in which the dualisms of, for instance, mind and nature and subject and object are overcome. His philosophy of spirit conceptually integrates psychology, the state, history, art,...

"But in writing that book I became aware of employing a new and unprecedented way of thinking". Hegel's different way of thinking has become known as dialectical thinking. What makes dialectical thinking so difficult to explain is that it can only be seen in practice.

It has "overcome and preserved" (or sublated) the stages of the thesis and antithesis to emerge as a higher rational unity. Note: This formulation of Hegel's triadic logic is convenient, but it must be emphasised that he never used the terms thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Hegel's dialectic triad also serves another logical purpose.