Clue: Incline to embrace German philosopher (5)
Answer: HEGEL
Explanation: Definition: philosopher

HEEL ("incline") to embrace G (German)
 
*Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) was a German idealist philosopher. I only know of him from the Monty Python Philosophers' Song in which it was suggested that "David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel".