The last of the thinkers of the Modern era, Hegel, continued what I. Kant, J.G. Fichte, and F. Schelling had begun. Today his works are recognized as the pinnacle of classical German philosophy. “Philosophy of Spirit,” while being an independent work, is the final part of Hegel’s “Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.”
This work presents the German philosopher’s teaching about the human being, human consciousness, types of activity, and consists of three sections: about subjective spirit (anthropology, phenomenology, psychology), about objective spirit (law, morality, the state), and about absolute spirit (art, religion, philosophy)—as the highest stage of self-knowledge of the “absolute idea.”