Filosofar significa aprender a pensar e a viver livremente

A translation into Portuguese of the initial pages of G.W.F. Hegel's new biography by Klaus Vieweg is presented. In these pages, Vieweg presents an overview of Hegel’s life, as well as the interpretative keys that allow to relate Hegel’s life and work in a coherent and detailed review of the philosopher's bio-bibliographic path. His insertion in his time, as well as a very general outline of Hegel's reception, both by his contemporaries and today is exposed. Some prejudices and gross errors of interpretation that have been repeated in the last two centuries on the philosopher of Stuttgart are also refuted.