Who were the main influences on Hegels philosophy?
These can be found in our Hegel biography. Main authors which had a substantial influence on Hegel include the greek tragedians, Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Lessing, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Kant, Schiller, Goethe, Hölderlin, Fichte and Schelling. In the field of “objective spirit”, you would also add the French and British authors on politics and political economy.
