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Full Idea
The solution to the antinomies is as trivial as they are profound; it consists merely in a tenderness for the things of this world. The stain of contradiction ought not to be in the essence of what is in the world; it must belong only to thinking reason.
Gist of Idea
Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §48 Rem)
Book Ref
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.159
A Reaction
A rather Wittgensteinian remark. I love his 'tenderness for the things of this world'! I'm not clear why our thinking should be considered to be inescapably riddled with basic contradictions, as Hegel seems to imply. Just make more effort.
| 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] |