Single Idea 20954

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism]

Full Idea

The point in philosophy at which the contradictions are exhausted is what Hegel means by the 'absolute idea'.

Gist of Idea

The 'absolute idea' is when all the contradictions are exhausted

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816]) by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 4 'Questions'

Book Reference

Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.90


A Reaction

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Idea 20953 Every concept depends on the counter-concepts of what it is not [Hegel, by Bowie]

Idea 20952 Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie]