Hegel

Hegel was a giant in his day and his philosophy has been hugely influential, especially on Karl Marx. As Peter Singer points out, his prose is impenetrable and it seems, on the accounts of his students, that his delivery was no less so. Singer explains that he has deliberately missed out certain aspects of Hegel's work including aesthetics, philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He concentrates instead on his philosophy of history, which I have in my library, his writings on freedom, logic and dialectics. His philosophy of history is one of the progress of freedom, which has yet to reach the whole world.