History of Philosophy II

More on Hegel - it is hard to move on past Hegel since he is still so significant almost everything can be viewed as a reaction to Hegel one way or the other. Kierkegaard to the one direction, Marx to the other, both rebelling against a view of Hegel they received by studying with Frederick Schelling - who has quite a history of friendship and enmity with Hegel. Soren Kierkegaard stresses the individual, Marx stresses the social. But we especially see Hegelianism in our own contemporary arguments over what a person is. But then we moved a bit into an analysis of Schopenhauer who was a student of Hegel - and another rebel against Hegel himself. In this case, it seems his work is somewhat pre-Kantian since he argues that the Will is the thing in itself. This is essentially something like fate and a great way to view the impact of his ideas here on culture is to see the work of Wagner. The quiz question was to review the story of the Ring of the Niebelungen and describe what you think of the story.