Commentary

• Hegel and the Dialectic of the Ancient Philosophers

  - Gadamer, Hans-Georg. “Hegel and the Dialectic of the Ancient Philosophers,” Hegel’s Dialectic, tr. P. Christopher Smith. New Haven, 1976.
  Excerpt: In Plato Hegel sees the earliest development of speculative dialectic, for Plato goes beyond allowing the universal to emerge indirectly by merely confounding a point of view. That the Sophists had done too. In contrast to them, as Hegel sees it,… More

• Hegel’s Naturalism by Terry Pinkard

  - Pinkard, Terry. Hegel’s Naturalism: Mind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  Excerpt: “In his 1807 Phenomenology, Hegel titled the sections on ancient Greece ‘The True Spirit.’ This form of life is ‘true’ in that it presents us with a view of what our agency would look like if we were both self-conscious… More