Single Idea 8933

[catalogued under 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity]

Full Idea

Scientific cognition demands surrender to the life of the object, or, what amounts to the same thing, confronting and expressing its inner necessity.

Gist of Idea

Science confronts the inner necessities of objects

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 53)

Book Reference

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.32


A Reaction

This strikes me as being a much better account of what science tries to do than all the modern talk about laws and theories.