Specific Objectives
Lead the student to understand that the core of Hegel’s philosophy lies in the idea of the dialectic. He based his theory on Aristotle, Heraclitus, Descartes, Kant and Spinoza among others. Part of the thesis: to be, pure potentiality that manifests itself by the Antithesis: non-being.
From this contradiction arises the Synthesis: coming-to-be. Spiritism reads this dialectic as an evolution of the spiritual principle through matter. With Hegel, the Spirit evolves through successive synthesis – in the spirit, these syntheses embody the idea of spiritual evolution through the four kingdoms of nature, until the culmination of his perfectibility, as Pure Spirit (LE – Ask. 100).
SPIRIT AND MATTER
The spiritist science unravels the Spirit’s phenomenology the notion of the perispirit and all functions and features of its nature (…) and this way may present the man in his intrinsic individuality: Spirit, Body and Organic Perispirit. (Gabriel Delanne.)
Modern Philosophy (XVII to XVIII)
Philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831)
