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Thinking and the I: Hegel and the Critique of Kant
What is the relation between thinking and the I that thinks? And what is the relation between thought and reality? The ordinary view shared by modern philosophers from Descartes to Kant, as well as by common sense, is that there is only thought when someone thinks something, and thoughts and concepts are mental acts that […]
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‘G. W. F. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom’ by Stanley Rosen
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in 1770 and died in 1831. He was educated at Tübingen, in theology and philosophy, and spent the greater part of his life as a teacher, primarily as a professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin, although he held a variety of other positions, including posts at the […]
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‘An Introduction to Hegel’ by G. R. G. Mure
Hegel was born in 1770. So, incidentally, were Beethoven and Wordsworth. In the same year Kant published his inaugural dissertation on ‘The Form and Principles of the Sensible and the Intelligible World’, and Goethe was twenty years old. Thus Hegel, who died in 1831, lived through Germany’s intellectual and artistic zenith. His statement that he […]
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Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics
Between Transcendence and Historicism explores Hegel’s aesthetics within the larger context of the tradition of theoretical reflection to emphasize its unique ability to account for traditional artistic practice. Arguing that the concept of the ethical is central to Hegel’s philosophy of art, Brian K. Etter examines the poverty of modernist aesthetic theories in contrast to […]
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G.W.F. Hegel: Critical Assessments
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), arguably the greatest philosopher of the nineteenth century, decisively influenced the direction of all subsequent European thought. Variously understood as a theist and an atheist, a conservative and a liberal, an essentialist and a proto-existentialist, a rationalist and an irrationalist, the ambiguities of Hegel’s position mean that “interpreting Hegel means taking a […]
Simon Gros 