German philosopher — who created the dialectical method, absolute idealism, and the philosophy of history — whose Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Science of Logic, and Philosophy of Right are the most ambitious systematic philosophical works since Aristotle.
Creates the dialectical history of consciousness — Hegel's Phenomenology traces consciousness's development from immediate sensory certainty through self-consciousness, ethics, religion to Absolute Knowledge; his argument (that thought and reality are identical, that history is the progress of Spirit's self-knowledge) shaped Marx, Nietzsche, existentialism, and analytic philosophy's engagement with history.
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