Category: History - Other

Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3)

IT is perhaps unnecessary to say anything respecting the difficulty of making any adequate translation of Hegel’s writings. In the case of the History of Philosophy, that difficulty is possibly enhanced by the fact that the greater part of the book is put together from the not...

Chapters

5. CHAPTER II.—FIRST PERIOD, SECOND DIVISION 350

GENTLEMEN,—Since the History of Philosophy is to be the subject of these lectures, and to-day I am making my first appearance in this University, I hope you will allow me to say...

10. CHAPTER II

IN this second division we have first to consider more particularly the Sophists, secondly Socrates, and thirdly the Socratics, while we distinguish from these Plato, and take h...

9. d. The Pythagoreans also applied their principle to the Soul, and

thus determined what is spiritual as number. Aristotle (De anim. I. 2) goes on to tell that they thought that solar corpuscles are soul, others, that it is what moves them; they...

7. CHAPTER I

1. The first source is found in Plato, who makes copious reference to the older philosophers. For the reason that he makes the earlier and apparently independent philosophies, w...

6. PART ONE

THE name of Greece strikes home to the hearts of men of education in Europe, and more particularly is this so with us Germans. Europeans have taken their religion, the life to c...

8. c. The Pythagoreans further constructed the heavenly bodies of the

visible universe by means of numbers, and here we see at once the barrenness and abstraction present in the determination of numbers. Aristotle says (Met. I. 5), “Because they d...

2. VOLUME ONE

IT is perhaps unnecessary to say anything respecting the difficulty of making any adequate translation of Hegel’s writings. In the case of the History of Philosophy, that diffic...

4. CHAPTER I.—FIRST PERIOD, FIRST DIVISION 166

3. PART ONE

1. VOLUME ONE