Janet Cameron

  Here is a portrait of Georg Hegel by Jakob Schlesinger in 1831. Image by FreeArt1. This was a man with a lot of fine ideas - but these didn't extend to respect for the female gender... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) developed and brought together new and exciting ideas that flowed through the Romantic period. In Sophie’s World , Jostein Gaardner describes this outstanding, systematic thinker as a “legitimate child of Romanticism.”  However, Georg Hegel was not everybody’s favourite person – far from it.  Read more...