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Single Idea 5646
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
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Full Idea
It would not be unfair to say that Hegel's metaphysics consists of an ontological proof of the existence of everything.
Gist of Idea
Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Roger Scruton - Short History of Modern Philosophy Ch.12
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'A Short History of Modern Philosophy' [ARK 1985], p.171
A Reaction
This is so gloriously far from David Hume that we must all find some appeal in it. The next question would be whether necessary existence has been proved. If so, given death, decay and entropy, what is it that has to exist? 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
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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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