Kant and Hegel Seminar

The seminar was based around the ideas of Emmanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the seminar paper was read by myself and Asha and this gave the group a very good introduction to the discussion. We had a long discussion as a group about how influential Hegel's ideas were on other philosophers such as Karl Marx with his belief that history can be divided up into three stages, Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis and these stages allow human being to have self knowledge and understanding. A thesis is a proposition such as a fact or belief that a human believes and an antithesis allows the proposition to be contradicted or agreed up. The synthesis is the end product where either the thesis or antithesis is combined to create a belief. When humans have full knowledge of the world around them via this process known as a dialectic then they have full knowledge and Hegel thought that this is the point where history ends as there is no more to be discovered.