Hegel#
Summary#
Hegel is presented as a “philosophical worker” who, alongside Kant, formalized and systematized existing valuations rather than creating new values as true philosophers do. Nietzsche credits Hegel with elevating German culture through his refinement of the historical sense, while noting that Schopenhauer’s unintelligent rage against Hegel severed modern Germans from this cultural heritage. Together with Schopenhauer and Goethe, Hegel stood against English mechanical philosophy, though the two “hostile brother-geniuses” pushed German thought in opposite directions.