I have been thinking about Hegel and Jacob Fries for a few days. I think both have been sadlly neglected.

The reasons I think for Hegel are that he was clear that he was in a middle position between the Left {progressives} and the Right - Throne Evangelicals. And the middle is always a hard position to hold onto since it can easily be construed and  tilted to one side or the other by those that do not want to understand.

The major new idea  of Fries of non intuitive immediate knowledge was neglected for reasons having nothing to do with the merits of that approach. For this idea gives a basis for the categories of Kant that otherwise  have weak justification. [And this can be expanded into faith. This is a better justification for faith than Kant's somewhat weak making room for it.] And it is better than Hegel's also since  faith really is not the same kind of thing as logical deductions. Hegel however was right that he did not think feelings were a good justification. [As many thought so in Berlin at the time. To those Hegel directed his criticism.] So that leaves us with  knowledge that is not based on reason and not on the senses--i.e. faith