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Must the subject always be opposed to an object?
In Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, the chapter on self-consciousness is a turning point. Earlier stages—sense experience, perception, and understanding—all looked for truth in something outside ...
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How does Hegel's Ontology overcome issues in Spinoza's?
I'm trying to write a paper and I've tried to reconstruct an argument about this on my own with no luck so far. It's about Hegel's criticism of Spinoza.
As far as I understand, Hegel's main critique ...
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What is the intellectual import of a work of art (geistiger Gehalt) for Hegel?
What is the intellectual import of a work of art (geistiger Gehalt) for Hegel? I've not read much Hegel, and feel very unfamiliar with his ideas, but it comes up in discussions of critical theory.
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What is the connection between Hegel's "world of senses" "1st supersensible world" & "2nd supersensible world"?
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In the Phenomenology of Spirit, in the chapter "Force and Understanding" Hegel claims that the understanding (Verstand) encounters the 2nd law, which in turn creates the 2nd ...
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What is the thinking Buddha's posture according to Hegel?
I am looking for some scholarly comments on a passage by Hegel about Buddha:
The image of Buddha is in this thinking position : the feet and arms
are folded over one another so that one toe goes into ...
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Hegel: contradiction and limit are the concepts to grasp the essential structure of reality, and they are deeply intertwined. Does it make sense?
I attended a university lecture on Hegel, and I don't know what to think. From a certain point of view it seems brilliant and original, but I don't know how much sense it actually makes.
here is the ...
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Hegel on Schelling's "Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom", why did he think that this work is unique?
In volume 3 of his "History of Philosophy" Hegel has a chapter on Schelling. By that time Schelling has already written several great works from the early period of his philosophy. Hegel ...
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Is for-itself simply in-itself-and-for-other in Hegel's Science of Logic?
I have been going through Hegel's Doctrine of Being, and have started rewriting it in my own words, as that usually helps me understand something.
In so doing, I created a (new?) suffix: -in-itself-...
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How's Hegel's conception of Geist different from the bible's conception of the holy spirit?
I was seeing a documentary on Christianity, in it many times the word "Holy spirit" was mentioned with subtext that it was something written in the bible. I had previously heard Hegel came ...
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What was Hegel's system for Kierkegaard?
Kierkegaard was a critic of Hegel's systematic philosophy. At the same time, he did admire Hegel, studied him thoroughly and took him seriously.
What role did Hegel's system play in Kierkegaard's ...
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Do ⊢ and ⊣ (as "demitrue" and "demifalse") conform to the classical, or to neo-Hegelian, absorption rules for disjunction and conjunction?
The use of the word "absorption" in a logical and/or mathematical context is varied. Per the examples on Wikipedia, the uptack and the downtack are absorbing elements modulo conjunction and ...
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A few doubts regarding Hegel's Sense Certainty
I, after reading commentaries and being patient with time, understood Hegel's concept of sense-certainty as a distinction between the Subject and the Object only, this type of consciousness or ...
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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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Citation regarding a quote having to do with "truth" and what "an animal needs to believe"
I'm trying to run down a quote from (I think) Hegel which I read several years ago and have not been able to find since.
The gist of it is this...
"What an animal, for the sake of its own survival,...
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What do contemporay philosophers say about Hegel's aesthetics beyond interpretation?
Hegel's philosophy of art is a wide ranging account of beauty in art,
the historical development of art, and the individual arts of
architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry. It contains
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