Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Fried rich, a German metaphysician; born in Stuttgart in 1770. He was profe or succe ively at Jena, Heidelberg, and Berlin. He was at first the disciple of Schelling, with whom he was a ociated in the conduct of a philosophical journal in 1802-1803. But. his opinions gradually took a different turn. He rejected Schelling’s intellIectual intuition as an unwarrantable fi umption, though he continued te maintain its leading idea —the unity of the subjective or ideal, and the objective or real; and in this idea endeavored to establish that absolute cognition and absolute truth which alone, according to this school, can satisfy the demands of the philosophical spirit. Hegel seems not to have perfected his system; and as he had no power of exposition, or of lucid expre ion of his thoughts, it is impo ible to give a clear view of his philosophy.