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I cannot figure out what Hegel's views on epistemology , ethics, and metaphysics were. Anyone have any insight?

I am trying to see how many people posting in the Philosophy category know the def. of these words. I am not claiming that you don't know what these words mean, I am just curious.

I say no, but this might get some interesting answers. I know people rarely return to these questions but here is an amendment to the: Suppose that you either imagine or conjecture the existence of some alternate universe and come reasonably close in that hypothesis, such that you could devise a reasonable 'experiment' to test for its existence; in so doing, would you not have 'communicated' sentience into that universe? Paradoxically, you have proven that you cannot prove its [universe containing no sentience] existence or non-existence. When one attributes 'existence' to some phenomenon, aren't they really attributing 'meaning'?

More specifically, what does it mean to collapse epistemological problems into ontological ones?

These are just a couple random topics that intrigue me. I'm an undergraduate pursuing a philosophy minor. I thought some of Plantinga's arguments about theism were especially interesting. With atheism, I'm just looking for something more philosophical than the simple religion-bashing you see in Dawkins etc. On epistemology, I'm just looking to know what the current state of it is...how good are the current available responses to knowledge skepticism? What (if any) kinds of foundationalism or coherentism are still defensible?