Hegel's lecture notes were edited by his student,
Karl Ludwig Michelet in 1833, and revised in 1840–1842. An English translation was provided by
Elizabeth Haldane in 1892. In it, he outlined his ideas on the major philosophers. He saw consciousness as progressing from an undifferentiated
pantheism of the
East to a more
individualistic understanding culminating in the freedom of the
Germanic era. In his lectures Hegel cites extensively the voluminous histories of philosophy written in Germany after 1740; among them:
Johann Jakob Brucker's
Historia critica philosophiae, 6 vols. (1742–1767; "Critical History of Philosophy");
Johann Buhle's
Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie, 8 vols. (1796–1804; "Textbook on the History of Philosophy");
Dietrich Tiedemann's
Geist der spekulativen Philosophie von Thales bis Berkeley, 6 vols. (1791–1797; "The Spirit of Speculative Philosophy from Thales to Berkeley"); and
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann's
Geschichte der Philosophie, 11 vols. (1789–1819; "History of Philosophy"). == References ==