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Full Idea
Before Hegel, people thought in binary oppositions of God and the world, man and nature, man and being. After Hegel an intervening world of society and history was inserted between these pairs.
Gist of Idea
Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Introduction to the Philosophy of History [1840]) by Rüdiger Safranski - Nietzsche: a philosophical biography 05
Book Ref
Safranski,Rüdiger: 'Nietzsche: a philosophical biography' [Granta 2003], p.122
A Reaction
This is what Popper later called 'World Three'. This might be seen as the start of what we islanders call 'continental' philosophy, which we have largely ignored. Analytic philosophy only discovered this through philosophy of language.
20109 | Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs [Hegel, by Safranski] |
8215 | Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida] |
20255 | Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations [Nietzsche] |
20260 | Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic [Nietzsche] |
22036 | In Hegel's time naturalism was called 'Spinozism' [Pinkard] |
20110 | Hegel, Fichte and Schelling wanted to know Kant's thing-in-itself, as ego, or nature, or spirit [Safranski] |
21943 | Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting] |