Single Idea 22084

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

Full Idea

Thinking in its immanent determination and the true nature of things form one and the same content.

Gist of Idea

Authentic thinking and reality have the same content

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816], p.45), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - Hegel p.101

Book Reference

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.101


A Reaction

This is not much use unless we have a crystal clear idea of 'immanent determination', because we need to eliminate errors.

Related Idea

Idea 22083 Hegel believe that the genuine categories reveal things in themselves [Hegel, by Houlgate]