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Full Idea
The lesson of Hegel's Phenomenology was that the structure of reason was social, and was therefore a historical achievement.
Gist of Idea
The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 10
Book Ref
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.249
A Reaction
This must be one of the most influential ideas to have filtered into the modern world. It is a predecessor of Marxist sociology. The idea that stands against it is Frege's platonist view of logic, making it necessary, despite being historical.
| 23344 | Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions [Epictetus] |
| 23247 | The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason [Fichte] |
| 22035 | The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
| 3812 | Rationality is the way we coordinate our intentionality [Searle] |
| 3806 | Rationality is built into the intentionality of the mind, and its means of expression [Searle] |
| 2505 | Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax) [Fodor] |
| 2463 | A standard naturalist view is realist, externalist, and computationalist, and believes in rationality [Fodor] |
| 1584 | Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world [Roochnik] |
| 3125 | Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal] |