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Georg W.F. Hegel was a German philosopher who with two other philosophers created German idealism. He influenced writers of widely varying positions, including his admirers and detractors where he discussed a relation between nature and freedom, immanence and transcendence, and the unification of these dualities without eliminating either pole or reducing it to the other. He is also the founder of Hegelianism where philosophy is defined as all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories according to his favorite motto, “the rational alone is real”. According to Hegel, his method in philosophy consisted of following out the triadic development in each concept and in each thing. Therefore, hoping that philosophy would not contradict experience but will give to the data of experience; the philosophical which is, the ultimately true explanation.

Hegel categorized his philosophies into four different groups, consisting of Philosophy of nature, the Philosophy......

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