Hegel's break with Kant: the leap from individual psychology to sociology

Scholars who claim that Hegel's theories on social reality are a mere extension of Kant's idealism miss the fundamental distinctions between their philosophical approaches. While Kant used the supposedly scientific and objective approach in studying nature on his studies of human nature, Hegel recognized that reality is not bound by a single individual's conscious conception of truth. Hegel believes that study of human relations with each other is the key to the understanding of social reality.