Questions tagged [hegel]
Questions related to the works of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831), who was an important figure of German Idealism.
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Was Fedorov's cosmism a "materialized Hegelianism"?
In the introduction to Boris Groy’s excellent book Russian Cosmism, which is a compilation of writings from within the Russian cosmist movement, he says the following:
In a sense, Fedorov developed ...
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What are the conclusions in Kant or Hegel that we can take to the bank?
What are the conclusions in Kant's or Hegel's philosophy which "we can take to the bank" according to current scholarship?
Thank you for any scholarly reference.
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How would Hegel's view on the so-called mind-body problem be categorized today?
There are many attempts today at solving the mind-body problem, and these views can fall into many categories, like compound substance dualism, cartesian dualism, neutral monism, panpsychism, idealism,...
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does Hegel's Dialectical Materialism needs justification when we re-examine the notion of "opposite" and whether that's a fact of the world?
Hegel basically says thesis-antithesis-synthesis, and this works because there are opposition of ideas or there are contradictions
Derrida also uses concepts like "binary oppositions"
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Hegel's Notion of beauty and it's connection to "freedom"
can someone PLEASE make sense of this for me
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-aesthetics/
"In Hegel’s view, this sensuous expression of free spirit constitutes beauty. The purpose of art, ...
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What is the Economic Orientation of Hegel? Is he a Capitalist, Socialist, or Communist?
What is the Economic Orientation of Hegel? Is he a Capitalist, Socialist or Communist?
What is his point of view regarding commerce, and principal of supply and demand?
What is his point of view ...
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What is the difference between concepts and things?
I read that in Hegel’s ontology, concepts and things are the same thing. The universe itself is constructed from concepts, so in a way, reality is made of ideas.
Is there a deep difference other than ...
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What role does political science play in philosophical understanding? [closed]
If Hegel's Absolute Spirit drives the history of humanity to a certain ends, the historical political circumstances and decisions would be the most vivid representation of the Absolute Idea in action?
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Would the inability to mathematically prove randomness in our world prove that we live in the simulator? [closed]
My personal impression is that advocates of Hegel's absolute idea, or, the World inside a computer simulator, have a much easier time proving this, given how our world obeys common, predictable, ...
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What is the "fourth term" of the Hegelian dialectic?
Paul accomplishes his objective only by defining a fourth discourse, which could be called mystical, as the margin for his own. As if every schema of discourses had to configure a quadrangle. But is ...
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What is the difference between temporal logic and Dialectical Logic (Hegel)?
I have been reading Hegel's Science of Logic where he critiques its generation understanding of logic known as Formal Logic.
As I have come to understand one of the main differences between Hegel's ...
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How is Hegel's dialectic a logic?
There are several features of this account that Hegel thinks raise his
dialectical method above the arbitrariness of Plato’s dialectics to
the level of a genuine science. First, because the ...
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What did Hegel meant when he said that the universal continually engenders itself while maintaining its identity throughout the process?
The patriotic sentiment acquires its specifically determined content from the various members of the organism of the state. This organism is the development of the Idea to its differences and their ...
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If Hegel was so hard to read, how did he become so popular?
I find that it is a popular/fashionable opinion that Hegel is a difficult to read writer. See eg. If this is the case, then how did his writings become mainstream/gain popularity at all?
It's quite ...
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Why does Hegel suggest that rationality may go against itself eventually?
Hegel's view on Kant's antinomy is that it uncovers the inherent contradiction of rationality. I don't get it that the concept negates itself through logical deduction. My example is sponetanity vs ...
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