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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Related Ideas
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]