HEGEL

BY: PHIA MARIE M. TAGACAY

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Hegel is a German philosopher who developed

the dialectical scheme to emphasize the
progress of history.
BASIC
CONCEPTS OF
HEGEL
• Rationale
White is not only white because it is white. White is white
because it is not its opposite (black).

Every identity has its dynamic

opposition

Stephen Mackey; Looking Glass

 BASIC CONCEPTS
OF HEGEL
• Dialectic
Dialectic means own reasoning.

Hegel’s dialectic
Thesis – the subject (white)
Anti-thesis – the opposite (black)
Synthesis – the combination (gray)

Dairo Vargas; Ancient Land

BASIC CONCEPTS
OF HEGEL
• History
Everything is evolving not just physically but conceptually
towards the pure absolute possibility of all things being realized

History is not only what happened yesterday

but the evolution of the idea.

Fernando Amorsolo
 BASIC CONCEPTS
OF HEGEL
• Idea
The idea is what the history is moving towards
The totality of all things being realized within the dialectical
process

Eugene Bidau; Le printemps

Nature of Culture, Self-
Consciousness and Freedom

Culture is not only about the habits and

tradition of group of people but it is the rationale
process of an set of individuals strives towards to
self-consciousness. Them realizing what the self is
in the dialectic called history and from that, realizing
what freedom is.

Hilda Bell; All in a Garden Fair

 Arts and Aesthetics
Art is a (unique) avenue within culture that allows
us to test the capacities of freedom.
Art helps us to realize our freedom
Beauty is the consideration or the realization of
the possibilities of freedom.
The reason why we have a different perspective
of beauty is because we have a broader vision of the
possibilities

Leopold Schmutzler; Lady with Flowers

Art is an ongoing rational project to realize freedom
through the expression of beauty.
It is always changing because the world is coming to
fully realize as it evolves towards the idea.

Iris Scott
 “Progress is never linear… there is wisdom at every stage”
Georg
Georg Wilhelm
Wilhelm Friedrich
Friedrich Hegel
Hegel
The
The Phenomenology
Phenomenology of
of Spirit,
Spirit, 1807
1807

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, Pieter Brueghel the Elder