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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, engraving by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling after a lithograph by Julius Ludwig Sebbers, c. 1828; in the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Germany.
In 1807, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published his major work, the Phenomenology of Spirit (also known as the Phenomenology of Mind).12
This influential book traces the development of human consciousness from basic sense certainty through various stagesâincluding self-consciousness, reason, and spiritâto reach what Hegel termed "absolute knowledge". Through this work, Hegel sought to move beyond the limitations of Kantian philosophy by articulating a system that reconciled subjectivity and objective truth.32