''Lectures on the History of Philosophy'' (''LHP''; german: Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie, ''VGPh'',) delivered by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends ...
1805-6, 1816-8, 1819, 1820, 1825–6, 1827–8, 1829–30, and 1831, just before he died in November of that year.
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Overview
Hegel's lecture notes were edited by his student, Karl Ludwig Michelet
Karl Ludwig Michelet (4 December 1801 – 15 December 1893)
was a German Elizabeth Haldane
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (; 27 May 1862 – 24 December 1937) was a Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, nursing administrator, and social welfare worker. She was the sister of Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane a ...
in 1892.
In it, he outlined his ideas on the major philosophers. He saw consciousness as progressing from an undifferentiated pantheism
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of the East
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Etymology
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to a more individualistic
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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. (1742–67; "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. (1791–97; "The Spirit of Speculative Philosophy from Thales to Berkeley"); and Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann (7 December 1761 – 30 September 1819) was a German historian of philosophy.
Life
He was born and educated at Erfurt. In 1788, he became a lecturer on the history of philosophy at the University of Jena. Ten years lat ...
's ''Geschichte der Philosophie'', 11 vols. (1789–1819; "History of Philosophy").
See also
* ''A History of Western Philosophy
''A History of Western Philosophy'' is a 1946 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell. A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, it was criticised for Russell's over-generalization and omissio ...
'' by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...
* '' A History of Philosophy'' by Frederick Copleston
Frederick Charles Copleston (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume '' A History of Philosophy'' (1946–75).
...
* ''A New History of Western Philosophy
''A New History of Western Philosophy'' is a 2010 book by the British philosopher and theologian Anthony Kenny, consisting of a history of Western philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present day. The book consists of four separate parts whic ...
'' by Anthony Kenny
References
Bibliography
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full text at
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Vol. 1
Vol. 2Vol. 3
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External links
''Lectures on the History of Philosophy'' at archive.org
Blackwell Reference
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