Natural philosophy

Author: (German) Hegel
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Publish Date: 1980-05-01
Features: "Philosophy of Nature" is positioned between "Science of Logic" and "Philosophy of Spirit," serving as a part of Hegel's "Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences" and an important aspect of his objective idealism system. In this work, Hegel, from the perspective of dialectical idealism, views the development of the entire natural world as a process of self-alienation and self-return of the Absolute Spirit. The book is divided into three parts: Mechanics, Physics, and Organic Physics, each representing three stages of the Absolute Spirit's advancement from lower to higher levels due to internal contradictions. This book first reveals the internal connections and transformations of nature in the form of idealism. In the "Introduction" to his "Philosophy of Nature," Hegel discusses three questions: how to view nature, how to examine nature, and how to classify nature. His answers to these three questions form the outline of his entire natural philosophy.