Hegel on Teleology and Life

Teleology in action: plants strive for the sunlight in Queensland, Australia.    

This post analyses Hegel’s view of teleology, or apparent purpose in nature, in his Science of Logic.

Hegel on Observation and Self-observation (From Phenomenology of Spirit)

Title page of first edition of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).

This post is a commented abstract of the first third of the reason chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), which deals with logic, psychology and other sciences of human self-observation.

Lukács and Hegel on Teleology

György Lukács (1885-1971)

This post considers the theological implications of apparent purpose in nature in the light of Hegel-scholar György Lukacs’ analysis of teleology and the human labour process.

Herbart's Philosophy of Nature

This post summarizes Herbart's philosophy of nature. Herbart shared the project of a philosophical understanding of nature distinct though complementary in its aims and method from natural science with his contemporaries Schelling and Hegel. This is not now a common project. We draw for our account on Marcel Mauxion's La Métaphysique de Herbart (1894). The above image is of the Herbartdenkmal in Oldenburg around 1900.

Goethe and Schopenhauer on color

This is a brief note on the biographical facts on Hegel's relation to Goethe's theory of colors (Farbenlehre) and Schopenhauer's modification of the theory, drawn from Karl Rosenkranz's Life of Hegel (1844).

Hegel in Jena (Part Two)

This post covers the remainder of Hegel's time in Jena, drawn from chapters 7-14 of Hegels Leben (1844) by Karl Rosenkranz, down to publication of the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and the fleeting encounter with Napoleon.

The early Logic, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Nature

Here is a further summary of my reading of Karl Rosenkranz's Life of Hegel (1844), the first biography of Hegel from whom later biographers draw extensively. This post covers the start of chapter 19 of Part One, by far the longest chapter in the book describing Hegel's philosophical system and philosophy of nature prior to publication of the Phenomenology of Spirit in 1807.

Hegel's first book reviewed

Here is my Amazon review of Hegel's first book, The Difference between the System of Philosophy of Fichte and Schelling (1801).