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Single Idea 4188
[filed under theme 28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
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Full Idea
Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof.
Gist of Idea
Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof
Source
comment on Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' Ch.II
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.268
A Reaction
All massive a priori metaphysics is summed up in this argument, which is right at the core of philosophy.
The
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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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