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Based on the second amended edition of the "Geschichte der Philosophie" published in 1840, this edition - carefully prepared by Michelet, one of Hegel's students, and translated by E.S. Holdane and Frances H. Simson - was first published in England in 1892. Reprinted several times in the original 600 page three-volume presentation, the work has continued to interest scholars for the insight it affords into Hegel's view of the history of philosophy, for an understanding of his own theory, and in itself, as the first philosophical history of philosophy. This student-oriented text includes the most significant material in a one-volume abridgement. A short introduction explains the purpose and principles of the selections and assesses the continued importance of the work. This is followed by selections that include parts of the introduction to the discussion of Greek philosophy, as well as the sections on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; the introduction to modern philosophy; and then the sections on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling and the final result. |