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Single Idea 21754

[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism ]

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]

The 20 ideas from 'works'

21777 Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate]
5645 The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton]
5646 Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything [Hegel, by Scruton]
21755 For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21754 Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22079 Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era [Hegel, by Houlgate]
9225 Hegel reputedly claimed to know a priori that there are five planets [Hegel, by Field,H]
21758 Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
20414 Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains [Hegel, by Eldridge]
3909 Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society [Hegel, by Scruton]
4347 When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural [Hegel]
4188 Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof [Schopenhauer on Hegel]
6686 Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity [Hegel, by Graham]
19635 Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses [Hegel, by Cioran]
8215 Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida]
16011 Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms [Kierkegaard on Hegel]
5433 For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature [Hegel, by Russell]
3301 On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel [Benardete,JA on Hegel]
20952 Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie]
19661 Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction [Hegel, by Meillassoux]