Single Idea 22044

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

Full Idea

In the view of the later Schelling, although Hegel's system only really laid out the ways in which the senses of various concepts depended on each other, it claimed to be a system about the world itself.

Gist of Idea

Hegel claimed his system was about the world, but it only mapped conceptual interdependence

Source

comment on Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860

Book Reference

Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.320


A Reaction

I'm no expert, but I'm inclined to agree with Schelling. Since I am suspicious of the idea that each concept generates its own negation, I also doubt the accuracy of Hegel's map. I'm a hopeless case.