Hegel

1770-1831, Born on 27 august 1770, Stuttgart, German city.

Hime Time: 1789-French Revolution; 1805-1815 Napoleon ruled 39 German States; 1820s - Prussian state, strongest, yet Germany remained dis-integrated.

[According to him Prussian state is the highest form of rational state, human civilization, world spirit]

Father - civil servant; a prodigious student; was called "old man";

Influenced by Socrates (Dialectics), Plato (Idealism), Aristotle (Teleology), Rousseau (General Will), and Kant (Rationalism).

Influenced: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Communitarian, Post-modernists, existentialists.