1. His expertise is in German modern philosophy (Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, German idealism, neo-Kantianism), critical theory (Habermas) and Heidegger.

2. The pursuit of "purity" is one of the basic features of Kantianism and also the basis of his theory of transcendentalism and criticism.

3. By now, virtue ethics has been one of three basic ethics that also include kantianism and utilitarianism, which are the two major types of rule ethics.

4. Hegel at this time envisaged his future as that of a Popularphilosoph, i.e. a "man of letters" who serves to make the abstruse ideas of philosophers accessible to a wider public; his own felt need to engage critically with the central ideas of Kantianism did not come until 1800.