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Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegel was not only a great philosopher but a great historian of philosophy. He invented the idea of the philosophical tradition as a discussion among philosophers extending over centuries centering on a few main philosophical problems. This conceptual scheme, widely accepted in histories of philosophy, emerged in Hegel's lectures at the same t... more »ime as German idealism itself. This new abridgment of a well-known edition makes the main insights of Hegel's famous LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY widely available in an inexpensive edition. Based on the second amended edition of the GESCHICHTE DER PHILOSOPHIE published in 1840, this edition--carefully prepared by Michelet, one of Hegel's students, and ably translated by E.S. Holdane and Frances H. Simson--was first published in England in 1892. Reprinted several times in the origianl 600-page, three-volume presentation, the work has continued to interest scholars for the insight it affords into Hegel's view of the history of philosophy, for an understanding of his own theory, and in itself, as the first philosophical history of philosophy. In this student-oriented text, Professor Tom Rockmore selects the most significant material in a one-volume abridgment. A short introduction explains the purpose and principles of the selections and assesses the continued importance of the work. This is followed by selections that include parts of the Introduction to the discussion of Greek philosophy, as well as the sections on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; the Introduction to modern philosophy; and then the sections on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and the Final Result.« less