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Full Idea
For Hegel, the structure of our concepts and categories is identical with, and thus discloses, the structure of the world itself, because we ourselves are born into and so share the character of the world we encounter.
Gist of Idea
Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 01
Book Ref
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.6
A Reaction
This is a reasonable speculation, but it makes more sense in the context of natural selection, and an empiricist theory of concepts.
Related Idea
Idea 21755 For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
| 16116 | Aristotle derived categories as answers to basic questions about nature, size, quality, location etc. [Aristotle, by Gill,ML] |
| 16655 | Different genera are delimited by modes of predication, which rest on modes of being [Aquinas] |
| 12989 | Our true divisions of nature match reality, but are probably incomplete [Leibniz] |
| 21754 | Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 21755 | For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
| 16462 | The quest for ultimate categories is the quest for a simple clear pattern of notation [Quine] |
| 16185 | Causality indicates which properties are real [Cartwright,N] |
| 18512 | Ontology aims to give the fundamental categories of being [Heil] |
| 13739 | Maybe categories are just the different ways that things depend on basic substances [Schaffer,J] |
| 17728 | The concepts we have to use for categorising are ones which map the real world well [Jenkins] |
| 18921 | Individuals are arranged in inclusion categories that match our semantics [Engelbretsen] |