As a graduate student Karl Marx was enthralled with the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, the most dominant German thinker of his day. Hegel is called an “Absolute Idealist.” The real world for him is a world of ideas. Reality is by no means static in Hegel’s view. It is driven by the dialectical movement of…

Generally speaking, there are two ways the works of Soren Kierkegaard have been interpreted. The first, and more well-known, is to see him as a rather extreme religious existentialist thinker who placed blind faith as his top priority. According to this interpretation Kierkegaard believed that faith alone, unsupported by any historical or logical reasoning, is…