For 10 points, name this German philosopher, the founder of absolute idealism and author of The Phenomenology of Spirit.
This philosopher wrote The Positivity of the Christian Religion and argued that "the State is actually existing realized moral life" in his The Philosophy of History. His most notable work describes a collective social consciousness called the geist, as well as the development of self-consciousness out of two forces seeking dominance in the master-slave dialectic. His namesake dialectic describes the synthesis resolving the conflict between the inevitable antithesis and the pre-existing thesis. For 10 points, name this German philosopher, the founder of absolute idealism and author of The Phenomenology of Spirit.
This philosopher wrote The Positivity of the Christian Religion and argued that "the State is actually existing realized moral life" in his The Philosophy of History.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich {Hegel}