Why did Schopenhauer hated Hegel?

Answer 1

He thought Hegel used nonsense language, and that his 'pseudo-philosophy' (and German Idealism generally) was fundamentally flawed. He also had a professional rivalry: he resented that Hegel's lectures were more popular with students.

Answer 2

Hegel produced a kind of gigantic Rorschach ink blot. The outlines of that enigmatic form can be traced from memory, but just as with interpreting an ink blot—is it a butterfly?…is it two elephants bumping heads?—the more detailed the interpretation of what Hegel meant and why, the more radically different the interpretations. Schopenhauer's style was also to start with broad, general strokes, but then, unlike Hegel, to start zooming in on a definite idea which does not allow for an arbitrary interpretation.

Answer 3

Schopenhauer became a lecturer at the University of Berlin; it was there that his opposition to G. W. F. Hegel began. He attended lectures by the prominent post-Kantian philosopher J. G. Fichte and the theologian Schleiermacher, though Schopenhauer would start to react to the extreme idealism of Fichte. Schopenhauer daringly scheduled his own lectures at exactly the same time as his nemesis Hegel, in the hope of attracting students to come to his own lectures instead of Hegel. However, no students turned up to Schopenhauer's course of lectures, and subsequently he left, never to teach in a university again. An essay expressing his resentment towards this, and his negative attitude towards university philosophy was later written with the title On University Philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schopenhauer

Answer 4

A lot of the dislike was to do with Hegel's use of language - it's pretty tough reading. Schopenhauer believed he deliberately used difficult language in order to confuse the issue more than it needed to be. According to Schopenhauer, Hegel just used words, rather than strung them together with any real meaning.

Answer 5

I don't know about hate, but he fund that Hegel was so unclear in his writing as to be nonsensical. I agree. Hegel uses language that leaves his meaning ambiguous at best, and after only a few pages there are so many possible interpretations of what he writes that the careful reader cannot continue with any clarity.

Answer 6

His name was easier to spell.