13 reactions | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born 251 years ago today—but you only need to travel back to 2006 to hear John and Ken discuss his life and thought with Allen Wood, author of "Hegel's Ethical Thought" – LISTEN: https://philosophytalk.org/shows/hegel. | Philosophy Talk | Facebook

15 shares | This Sunday, to mark the 253rd anniversary of the birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, we'll be rebroadcasting a vintage episode with Allen Wood (then of Stanford University), author of "Hegel's Ethical Thought." Our then-Roving Philosophical Reporter, Polly Stryker, got a Hegel primer from John McCumber of UCLA, then-President of the Hegel Society of America. More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/hegel. | Philosophy Talk | Facebook

This week: Dialectic... Zeitgeist... The end of history. In this vintage episode, John and Ken question the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel with Allen Wood (then of Stanford), author of "Hegel's Ethical Thought" – Sunday at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2023-08-25/hegel. | Philosophy Talk

The Hegelian dialectic is a philosophical framework developed by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). At its core, the dialectic is a method for understanding and explaining the development of ideas, history, and social structures. It is based on the interaction of contradictory forces or ideas, which eventually resolve into a new, synthesized outcome. Hegel described this process using a three-stage model: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The thesis represents an