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Does someone here engage with Russell's interpretation of Hegel?

I was just wondering about it and I read some of Russell's commentaries about Hegel in his History of Western Philosophy book and couldn't believe it. I mean, at least have some respect for the immense Hegelian work, is like he isn't even trying to engage with dialectics and rejecting it in the most automatic sense. I really have curiosity to know if any of you think Russell's critiques are correct. I will just leave some quotes in found that I would argue are absurdly ridicule and imprecise.

"Berkeley, as we have seen, thinks that there are logical reasons proving that only minds and mental events can exist. This view, on other grounds, is also held by Hegel and his followers" (Russell, 657).

"Hegel, who owed much to Rousseau, adopted his misuse of the word "freedom," and defined it as the right to obey the police, or something not very different" (Russell, 697).

Posted Oct 11, 2025, 7:36 PM UTC

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