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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel () (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German idealist philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. His influence has been widespread on writers of widely varying positions, including both his admirers (Bradley, Sartre, Küng, Bauer, Stirner, Marx), and his detractors (Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schelling). He introduced, arguably for the first time in philosophy, the idea that history and the concrete are important in getting out of the circle of the perennial problems of philosophy. His conception of the master-slave dialectic stressed the importance of the Other in the coming to be of self-awareness.