section_path: Views/Modern philosophy/Hegel (1770–1831)
section_name: Hegel (1770–1831)
paragraph_text: Hegel (1770–1831)
  
  G. W. F. Hegel distanced his philosophy from empiricism by presenting truth as a self-moving process, rather than a matter of merely subjective thoughts. Hegel's truth is analogous to organics in that it is self-determining according to its own inner logic: "Truth is its own self-movement within itself."