  The extent to which McTaggart’s interpretations of Hegel are correct is not a matter on which I am competent to determine. For what it is worth, McTaggart’s work on Hegel does not appear to be highly regarded by contemporary scholars of Hegel, insofar as this is reflected in the paucity of references to McTaggart’s  interpretations.[1] In what follows, I will spend little time on those works of McTaggart that occupy themselves with the Hegelian philosophy. This is unfortunate, since this might give the impression that grappling with Hegel’s philosophy was merely a side project for McTaggart rather than a task of much importance for his philosophical development. In his Commentary on Hegel’s Logic, McTaggart tells us that the exposition of Hegel’s philosophy has been the chief object of his life for the last twenty-one  years (Commentary on Hegel’s Logic, 311). McTaggart’s Hegelianism was also important for the development of other philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, whose early work was inspired by the idealism defended by McTaggart in his Studies of the Hegelian  Dialectic.[2]  However, it is worth noting that McTaggart himself later abandoned the dialectical method that he took to be central to Hegel’s own metaphysics.