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Full Idea
The thought that the contradiction which is posited by the determinations of the understanding in what is rational is essential and necessary, has to be considered one of the most important and profound advances of the philosophy of modern times.
Gist of Idea
The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §48)
Book Ref
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.159
A Reaction
This is the aspect of Kant's philosophy which launched the whole career of Hegel. Hegel is the philosopher of the antinomies. Graham Priest is his current representative on earth.
| 13986 | Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations [Plato, by Ryle] |
| 14150 | Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made [Russell on Plato] |
| 21454 | The battle of the antinomies is usually won by the attacker, and lost by any defender [Kant] |
| 15628 | The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea [Hegel] |
| 15629 | Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world [Hegel] |
| 15630 | Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas [Hegel] |
| 17626 | The antinomy of endless advance and of completion is resolved in well-ordered transfinite numbers [Zermelo] |
| 21691 | Antinomies contradict accepted ways of reasoning, and demand revisions [Quine] |
| 9125 | Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away [Sorensen] |