Life and works
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 27 August 1770 | Born in Stuttgart, in the duchy of Württemberg.[3] [1] |
| 1788–1793 | Studies at the Protestant seminary of Tübingen (the Stift), where he forms friendships with the poet Hölderlin and the philosopher Schelling.[1] |
| 1801 | Moves to Jena, joining Schelling, and publishes his first philosophical work (on the difference between Fichte's and Schelling's systems), along with the dissertation on the orbits of the planets.[1] |
| 1807 | Publishes the Phenomenology of Spirit, completed at Jena.[1] [3] |
| 1812–1816 | Publishes the Science of Logic, in parts (1812, 1813 and 1816).[1] [3] |
| 1816 | Returns to university life as professor at Heidelberg.[1] |
| 1817 | Publishes the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the systematic exposition of his thought, later revised in new editions.[1] [3] |
| 1818 | Takes the chair of philosophy at the University of Berlin, the most prestigious in the German philosophical world.[1] [3] |
| 1821 | Publishes in Berlin the Elements of the Philosophy of Right, his major work of political philosophy.[1] [3] |
| 14 November 1831 | Dies in Berlin, at the height of his fame.[3] [1] |
How he read him
Reception, not philosophy: each entry records how Olavo de Carvalho characterised this philosopher, attributed and dated to the 2002 course. The project does not adjudicate who is right. The recordings are machine-transcribed and unchecked against audio, so everything here is paraphrase and nothing is quoted.
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Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy are his prototype of the reflective model: philosophy's content IS its history, an internal dialectic in which spirit comes to consciousness of itself, with individual philosophers — his image — as ventriloquist's dummies in the hands of reason, links in a chain they need not be aware of.
Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 01 — history of the histories of philosophy — 2002 ?
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His counter-claim, and the thesis of his own course: the history of philosophy is not a linear continuity to be forced into unity, but a human drama, in which the unforeseen and the discontinuous enter as they do in anyone's life.
Curso História Essencial da Filosofia, session 01 — history of the histories of philosophy — 2002 ?
Reception in the COF
Present in 168 of the 589 transcription files of the Curso Online de Filosofia; 32 lectures engage him substantially (5 or more mentions). The most engaged lectures:
This section documents what Olavo said and when — never what the philosopher "really" meant. Characterizations are Olavo’s, tied to a lecture by number and date.
| Lecture (aula) | Date | Mentions |
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| 213 | 2013-07-27 | 89 |
| 214 | 2013-08-03 | 46 |
| 40 | 2010-01-09 | 26 |
| 171 | 2012-09-08 | 21 |
| 357 | — | 21 |
| 150 | 2012-04-14 | 18 |
| 299 | — | 14 |
| 176 | 2012-09-08 | 13 |
| 14 | 2009-07-11 | 12 |
| 58 | 2010-05-15 | 12 |
| 566 | — | 11 |
| 164 | 2012-07-21 | 10 |
| 70 | 2010-08-14 | 7 |
| 222 | 2013-10-22 | 7 |
| 234 | — | 7 |
A dash in the date column means the transcription file carries no verified date — an undated file, not an undated lecture. Counts are accent-insensitive, word-boundary matches over the public community transcription corpus.[4] [5]
References
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Hegel: Social and Political Thought (topical entry with a biographical section) — Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — Encyclopaedia Britannica
- COF — community transcriptions of the Curso Online de Filosofia (585 lectures) — Community transcription repository (upstream declares CC0 for the transcription work; the lectures remain the estate's)
- COF em Áudio — lecture audio collection — Internet Archive (community upload)