Biography
Where was Hegel born?
Stuttgart, Germany
What did German thinkers emphasize?
Introspection and Spirituality
According to Hegel, what is the absolute religion?
Christianity
What was Hegel's view on women?
Women are like plants while men are like animals. Women are educated by living rather than by acquiring knowledge. Men gain knowledge through stress of thought.
What job did Hegel hold at the University of Berlin?
Professor of Philosophy
What happened to the Holy Roman Empire after it fell?
The Holy Roman Empire States became part of Germany, Austria, and Prussia.
According to Hegel, what 2 things was God the unity of?
The infinite and finite.
Name the three stages of World Spirit consciousness and explain each one.
subjective spirit (consciousness in the individual), objective spirit (appears in interactions), absolute spirit (highest form of self-realization, found in art, religion, and philosophy)
What 2 subjects did Hegel study in Tübingen?
Philosophy and Theology
How did Catholic and Protestant views on reading Scripture differ and how did this impact literacy rates?
Protestants saw reading scripture as valuable and an opportunity to increase literacy and, therefore, increase social status. Catholics disagreed and did not read scripture themselves. The priests would read scripture. This decreased Catholic literacy rates.
Name an example of the dialectic process in history.
Democracy (freedom) vs Imperialism (slavery) ----> Feudalism (no slaves, peasants with few rights).
Can be found in Greece or Roman societies.
How did Hegel's friendships shape his philosophical views?
They focused his interest on issues that were arising instead of critical philosophy.
Name 2 facts relating to the politics of Germany from 1760-1815.
The "Great Powers" (France, England, Spain) made the majority of political decisions which left Germany stuck between following others decisions or focusing on their own system.
Germany was ruled by monarchies who built expensive buildings, causing peasants to fall into poverty.
Some Holy Roman Empire States became part of Germany.
Germany fought against Napolean and ended the first french empire.
Explain the Dialectic Process and how it relates to history.
Throughout history, there is a chain of events in which someone proposes a thought, then another person comes along and disagrees with them, and lastly, a third person comes and resolves the tension by accommodating both points of view (also known as the three stages of knowledge: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis). Every synthesis becomes a thesis and therefore has its own antithesis creating a never ending process in history.