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Single Idea 19661
[filed under theme 2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
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Full Idea
Hegel saw that the absolutization of the principle of sufficient reason (which marked the culmination of the belief in the necessity of what is) required the devaluation of the principle of non-contradiction.
Gist of Idea
Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812], 3) by Quentin Meillassoux - After Finitude; the necessity of contingency 3
Book Ref
Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.71
A Reaction
I pass this on without understanding it, though a joint study of my collection of ideas on sufficient reason and non-contradiction might make it clear. [Let me know if you can explain it!]
Related Ideas
Idea 18241
Sufficient reason is implied by contradiction, of an insufficient possible which exists [Wolff, by Korsgaard]
Idea 19404
Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]
The
20 ideas
from 'works'
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21777
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Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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5645
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The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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5646
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Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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21755
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For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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21754
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Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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22079
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Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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9225
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Hegel reputedly claimed to know a priori that there are five planets
[Hegel, by Field,H]
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21758
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Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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20414
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Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains
[Hegel, by Eldridge]
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3909
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Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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4347
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When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural
[Hegel]
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4188
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Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof
[Schopenhauer on Hegel]
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6686
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Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity
[Hegel, by Graham]
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19635
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Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses
[Hegel, by Cioran]
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8215
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Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book
[Hegel, by Derrida]
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16011
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Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms
[Kierkegaard on Hegel]
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5433
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For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature
[Hegel, by Russell]
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3301
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On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel
[Benardete,JA on Hegel]
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20952
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Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation'
[Hegel, by Bowie]
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19661
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Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction
[Hegel, by Meillassoux]
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