Biographical Information Hegel (his full name was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) was born at Stuttgart, German, in 1770. He spent most of his childhood in German, at a place called Jena (Singer 1). Some of the major events in Hegel’s life happened during the French Revolution that left a bloody mark on the history and was followed by Napoleon’s rise and fall. The other historical events during his time were the Revolution of 1830 and the death of the Holy Roman Empire. These changes brought with them the restructuring of both the social and the political lives and played a critical role in shaping of his thoughts (Luther 95). By the time Hegel was twenty one years old, the revolutionary armies invaded Germany. This caused the beginning of the Revolutionary Wars. At that time, Germany was made up of over 300 states, free cities and duchies. They were bundled together loosely under the leadership of Francis I of Austria, who then became the leader of the Holy Roman Empire. When the Revolutionary Wars began under the leadership of Napoleon, the Holy Roman Empire began crumbling down after a thousand years of reign. Hegel was living at Jena at that period. He was impressed by Napoleon’s might- that he believed had led to the fall of the Holy Roman Empire. His admiration for Napoleon would never cease, and even after he was defeated in 1814, Hegel considered it a tragic event (Singer 2). Besides, several generations of his relatives were preachers in the Protestant Church. As such, Hegel is believed to have cultivated a robust sense of religious identity (Luther 95). Additionally, Hegel was born and brought up in a world composed of an odd and hardly coherent make-up of new and old. The glaring contrasts between his cultural background, his introduction to Enlightenment both at school and home and the oddities as well as the complexities of the defunct Württemberg influenced his understanding of the world around him as well as development of his identity (Pinkard 2) Hegel passed away in the year 1839. He had suffered multiple strokes having begun in the summer of 1838 which later caused his death in May 1939. At that time, Hegel was forty two years old (Hoffheimer 9). Philosophical Information Hege’sl Theories and Their Significance Hegel’s philosophical theories revolved around ethics, freedom and recognition concepts. According to Hegel, the concepts of freedom, recognition and ethics are inextricably bound together. This is in the sense that freedom presupposes and needs recognition. On the other hand, recognition can be defined as the process through which freedom is actualized and also becomes ethical. Recognition, therefore, was Hegel’s central philosophy of spirit. The inclusion of the critique of egoism and individualism helps to lend actuality in terms of freedom as proposed by Hegel. It also involves the decentralization of the individual subject by the other, which is transformative at the same time (Wood 42). Even though Hegel concentrated his efforts on discussing freedom, it is imperative to note that Hegel’s autonomous freedom is mediated inter-subjectively. Hegel had the conviction that the true autonomy was achievable only through communion and relation with one another. The relationship is not contrasted wit