The Origin of History in Hegel's Philosophy
| dc.contributor.author | Barth, Wolfgang Josef, 1978- | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-12-03T00:47:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-12-03T00:47:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-09 | |
| dc.description | vii, 70 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In his Lectures on the Philosophy of History, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel claims to describe the whole of world history. He locates the beginning of history between the Persian and the Greek world, which are not only places for Hegel but also steps in time. In his lectures he describes a time before the emergence of history and a time after the emergence of history. My thesis focuses on the problems that arose from placing the beginning of history at a moment different from the beginning of time. The question I am answering is: How does Hegel understand the beginning of history if not as the beginning of time? The argumentation follows his Lectures on the Philosophy of History and explains how he saw the period prior to history and how he saw history itself. In a second step, the transition from one to the other will be examined. The place where the transition happened was Persia. Therefore, Persia is the focus of my investigation. I examine the elaboration of reason described by Hegel and his notion of the relation between time and history as well as subjektiver and objektiver Geist. In a third step, the question of relevance will be answered. Hegel connects the elaboration of reason with the separation of quality and quantity in the sphere of logic and the separation of time and space in the sphere of nature-philosophy. The parallel construction of these separations must have a fundamental impact on the philosophical discussion of Hegel. I simplify the separation step and describe it as a form of shift in denomination. I conclude with an abstract discussion of numeric as well as symbolic systems and their relation to the religious context in which Hegel has to be read. This approach to Hegel is so close to the precise and often idiomatic wording of Hegel's theories that it is in the best interest of anyone reading this thesis that it is written in German. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Adviser: Jeffrey Librett, Michael Stern, Alexander Mathas | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/7930 | |
| dc.language.iso | de | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Dept. of German and Scandinavian, M.A., 2008; | |
| dc.subject | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 | en |
| dc.title | The Origin of History in Hegel's Philosophy | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
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