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Single Idea 20414
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
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Full Idea
We may take Hegel's Absolute Spirit to be the union of collective, human rational activity at a historical moment with its proper object, the forms of social and individual life that the rational activity is devoted to understanding and sustaining.
Gist of Idea
Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Richard Eldridge - G.W.F. Hegel (aesthetics) 1
Book Ref
'Key Thinkers in Aesthetics', ed/tr. Giovannelli,Alessandro [Continuum 2012], p.77
A Reaction
From this formulation it sounds as if the whole human race might have momentary union, but presumably it is more local 'peoples' that can exhibit this.
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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