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Hegel wrote a commentary on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. It is a lost work! Damn.

In order to start, it is sufficient merely to begin!

Kant’s main critical philosophy was already formulated by the time of the French Revolution. The great post-Kantian philosophers, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel are all post-revolutionary philosophers too.

The period between Kant and Hegel possesses an astonishing philosophical richness. Yet in Hegel's opinion, there are only two thinkers in this entire period who are worthy of the name philosopher: Fichte and Schelling.

Two amazingly bright stars, soon to be outshone by the even more brilliant star of Hegel himself!

At most, Kant thinks of human being as historical being, but he is unable to integrate his concept of a historical person with his ahistorical concept of knowledge. Hegel is the first thinker to integrate the historical and systematic aspects within a single philosophical vision.

[With the exceptions of Marx and Weber] Hegel remains perhaps the first and the last to know how to integrate history into his thought.