1820 in philosophy

Publications

• Thomas Brown - Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts

Births

• 22 January - James Hutchison Stirling, English philosopher (died 1909)
• 27 April – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist (died 1903)
• 23 June – , German author and philosopher (died 1897)
• 28 November – Friedrich Engels, German revolutionary, political economist, philosopher, industrialist, and military historian (died 1895)

Deaths

• 24 March – Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet, French philosopher (born 1735)
• 2 April – Thomas Brown, Scottish philosopher and doctor (born 1778)
• 20 July – , Swedish philosopher (born 1745)

References

• Laurentiis, A, 2005, "Metaphysical Foundations of the History of Philosophy: Hegel's 1820 Introduction to the "Lectures on the History of Philosophy", The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 3–31