Three Essays, 1793-1795: The Tubingen Essay, Berne Fragments, the Life of Jesus

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

English, German (translation)

Genres: Religion, Philosophy

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1795

About the author

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.

Reviews

[Edward Moran · Rating 5 out of 5]

"The life of Jesus" is Christ without all the mythology and living according to Kant's categorical imperative instead of the golden rule. Best book on Christ along with Nietzsche's "the antichrist."

[Gerry Kingham · Rating 4 out of 5]

How right he was in saying that "we are taught objective religion in the schools from our youth up, they stuff our memories with it quite early enough, so that... the still immature understanding... is borne down by the burden."

[Luis Ángel · Rating 5 out of 5]

La biografía de Jesús es quizá uno de los textos más interesantes que tiene Hegel sobre el cristianismo y su valor histórico en relación con la idea del Absoluto

[Filippo Ferraresi · Rating 4 out of 5]

il cristianesimo se i preti non si scopassero i bimbi e non avesse causato il 90% delle guerre

[Luisa J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sólo La vida de Jesús.
"El plan de la divinidad no se limita a un sólo pueblo o a una sola fe, sino que abarca con amor imparcial el genero humano en su totalidad."