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| | §31. Stirlings "Secret of Hegel". I. Philosophers. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Hegel was described as the reconciler of philosophy and religion, and Stirling, fascinated by the thought, soon afterwards threw up his practice, settled for some years on the continentin Germany and in Franceand devoted himself with ardour to philosophical study, especially to the mastery of Hegels system. |
 | | In Hegels construction he found a method and point of view which justified the fundamental ideas of religion, and, at the same time, made clear the one-sidedness of the conceptions of the age of enlightenment, at the end of which Kant stood, still hampered by its negations and abstractions. |
 | | And Stirlings favourite and most lively criticisms were directed against the apostles of the enlightenment and their followers of the nineteenth century. |
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