An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

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.