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Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

39 chapters, about 148,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE 400 words
2. DELIVERED AT HEIDELBERG ON THE 28TH OCTOBER, 1816 900 words
3. PREFATORY NOTE 1,000 words
4. INTRODUCTION 2,200 words
5. THE NOTION OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 1,000 words
6. 1. COMMON IDEAS REGARDING THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 12,800 words
7. B 200 words
8. 1. THE HISTORICAL SIDE OF THIS CONNECTION. 13,100 words
9. 3. COMMENCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND OF ITS HISTORY. 1,900 words
10. 1. DIVISION OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 3,100 words
11. 2. SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 1,900 words
12. ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY 900 words
13. A. CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. 2,000 words
14. B. INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. 6,300 words
15. INTRODUCTION 5,200 words
16. FIRST PERIOD, FROM THALES TO ARISTOTLE 200 words
17. PERIOD I.—DIVISION I.—THALES TO ANAXAGORAS 1,500 words
18. A. THE IONIC PHILOSOPHY. 8,000 words
19. B. PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS. 11,800 words
20. C. THE ELEATIC SCHOOL. 600 words
21. 1. XENOPHANES. 2,500 words
22. 2. PARMINIDES. 2,700 words
23. 3. MELISSUS. 1,000 words
24. 4. ZENO. 3,600 words
25. B A 1,800 words
26. D. HERACLITUS. 6,200 words
27. E. EMPEDOCLES, LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS. 200 words
28. 1. LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS. 3,300 words
29. 2. EMPEDOCLES. 1,800 words
30. F. ANAXAGORAS. 10,400 words
31. CHAPTER II 600 words
32. A.—THE SOPHISTS. 6,800 words
33. 1. PROTAGORAS. 2,000 words
34. 2. GORGIAS. 800 words
35. B.—SOCRATES. 19,100 words
36. C. THE SOCRATICS. 1,900 words
37. 1. THE MEGARICS. 3,100 words
38. 2. THE CYRENAIC SCHOOL. 3,200 words
39. 3. THE CYNIC SCHOOL. 2,200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ahimsa
• Antigone
• Avatar
• Becoming (philosophy)
• Bodhisattva
• Chaos (cosmogony)
• Dialectic
• Duality (mathematics)
• Heraclitus (commentator)
• Hippocrates
• History
• History of philosophy
• Immutability (theology)
• Indian philosophy
• Indra
• Kapila
• Nyaya
• Objectivity (science)
• Personal god
• Philosophy
• Philosophy (journal)
• Phosphorus (morning star)
• Political science
• Qalb
• Socratic method
• Sophist
• Tao
• Tradition
• Trinity
• Water (classical element)

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