The Cambridge companion to Hegel

Abstract

This article explores the intellectual development of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, focusing on his philosophical development from his youth to 1807. It traces the evolution of his philosophical interests, noting the influences of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Holderlin, as well as the importance of his own early writings. It discusses Hegel’s developing interest in logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of nature, and his growing concern with the relationship between the absolute and the finite. It also discusses the origins of his dialectical method, and his eventual abandonment of intellectual intuition as the basis for knowledge of the absolute. – AI-generated abstract.