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Single Idea 21981
[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Full Idea
As intuitively accepted by Spinoza without a previous mediation by dialectic, substance is as it were a dark shapeless abyss which engulfs all definite content as radically null, and produces from itself nothing that has a positive substance of its own.
Gist of Idea
The one substance is formless without the mediation of dialectical concepts
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], I §151Z p.215), quoted by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 07.6
Book Ref
Moore,A.W.: 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics' [CUP 2013], p.181
A Reaction
This seems to be an expression of idealism, since only what is conceptualised can exist.
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46 ideas
from 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)'
5644
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In Hegel's logic it is concepts (rather than judgements or propositions) which are true or false
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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15607
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We don't think with concepts - we think the concepts
[Hegel]
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15608
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The act of thinking is the bringing forth of universals
[Hegel]
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15609
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The sensible is distinguished from thought by being about singular things
[Hegel]
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15610
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Active thought about objects produces the universal, which is what is true and essential of it
[Hegel]
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19070
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Superficial truth is knowing how something is, which is consciousness of bare correctness
[Hegel]
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19072
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In the deeper sense of truth, to be untrue resembles being bad; badness is untrue to a thing's nature
[Hegel]
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19071
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The deeper sense of truth is a thing matching the idea of what it ought to be
[Hegel]
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19073
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True philosophy aims at absolute unity, while our understanding sees only separation
[Hegel]
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21768
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Logic is metaphysics, the science of things grasped in thoughts
[Hegel]
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22081
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Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere
[Hegel]
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22078
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Even simple propositions about sensations are filled with categories
[Hegel]
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15613
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Real cognition grasps a thing from within itself, and is not satisfied with mere predicates
[Hegel]
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15612
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Older metaphysics naively assumed that thought grasped things in themselves
[Hegel]
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15614
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Old metaphysics tried to grasp eternal truths through causal events, which is impossible
[Hegel]
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15615
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Older metaphysics became dogmatic, by assuming opposed assertions must be true and false
[Hegel]
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15616
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If truth is just non-contradiction, we must take care that our basic concepts aren't contradictory
[Hegel]
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15617
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In abstraction, beyond finitude, freedom and necessity must exist together
[Hegel]
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15618
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If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable
[Hegel]
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15619
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Empiricism made particular knowledge possible, and blocked wild claims
[Hegel]
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15620
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Empiricism contains the important idea that we should see knowledge for ourselves, and be part of it
[Hegel]
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15622
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Empiricism unknowingly contains and uses a metaphysic, which underlies its categories
[Hegel]
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15621
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Empiricism of the finite denies the supersensible, and can only think with formal abstraction
[Hegel]
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15623
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Humean scepticism, unlike ancient Greek scepticism, accepts the truth of experience as basic
[Hegel]
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15624
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Free thinking has no presuppositions
[Hegel]
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15625
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Sense perception is secondary and dependent, while thought is independent and primitive
[Hegel]
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15626
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Categories create objective experience, but are too conditioned by things to actually grasp them
[Hegel]
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15628
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The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea
[Hegel]
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15629
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Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world
[Hegel]
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15630
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Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas
[Hegel]
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15631
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The ideal of reason is the unification of abstract identity (or 'concept') and being
[Hegel]
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15632
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The Humean view stops us thinking about perception, and finding universals and necessities in it
[Hegel]
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15633
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We establish unification of the Ideal by the ontological proof, deriving being from abstraction of thinking
[Hegel]
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15634
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Thought about particulars is done entirely through categories
[Hegel]
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15635
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The older conception of God was emptied of human features, to make it worthy of the Infinite
[Hegel]
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15636
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The Cogito is at the very centre of the entire concern of modern philosophy
[Hegel]
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15637
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Essence is the essential self-positing unity of immediacy and mediation
[Hegel]
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15638
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Dialectic is the moving soul of scientific progression, the principle which binds science together
[Hegel]
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21767
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Dialectic is seen in popular proverbs like 'pride comes before a fall'
[Hegel]
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15639
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Socratic dialectic is subjective, but Plato made it freely scientific and objective
[Hegel]
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21980
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God is the absolute thing, and also the absolute person
[Hegel]
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21981
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The one substance is formless without the mediation of dialectical concepts
[Hegel]
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21986
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Hegel's system has a vast number of basic concepts
[Hegel, by Moore,AW]
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21984
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We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed
[Hegel]
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21595
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Excluded middle is the maxim of definite understanding, but just produces contradictions
[Hegel]
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22300
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Existence is just a set of relationships
[Hegel]
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