Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 2 by Georg Wilh... - 9780803272729

Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 2Plato and the Platonists\nAuthor(s): Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, E. S. Haldane, Frances H. Simson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803272729, 978-0803272729\nSynopsis\nG. W. F. Hegel [tel], the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel writes: \""What the history of Philosophy shows us is a succession of noble minds, a gallery of heroes of thought, who, by the power of Reason, have penetrated into the being of things, of nature and of spirit, into the Being of God, and have won for us by their labours the highest treasure, the treasure of reasoned knowledge.\""Volume 2 of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, titled Plato and the Platonists for this Bison Books edition, introduces the most renown]