Single Idea 21793

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth]

Full Idea

The highest truth, truth as such, is the resolution of the highest opposition and contradiction.

Gist of Idea

Genuine truth is the resolution of the highest contradiction

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on Aesthetics [1826], I: 99), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 09 'Art'

Book Reference

Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.211


A Reaction

Uneasy about the word 'highest', and the general Hegelian dream of 'resolving' contradictions, rather than just eliminating at least one component of them. No one else uses the word 'truth' like this. I suppose this Truth has a capital 'T'.