We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions including both his admirers (Strauss Bauer Feuerbach T. H. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework or "system" of Absolute idealism to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature the subject and object of knowledge psychology the state history art religion and philosophy.