more on this theme     |     more from this thinker

Single Idea 7077

[filed under theme 3. Truth / D. Coherence Truth / 1. Coherence Truth ]

Full Idea

The true is the whole.

Gist of Idea

The true is the whole

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 20)

Book Ref

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.11

A Reaction

This is the full idealist coherence view of truth, that one only approaches the Truth (capital T) as one builds up a more and more coherent picture. It makes truth unattainable, and that strikes me as a bit silly.

The 28 ideas from 'Phenomenology of Spirit'

21776 Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22035 The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard]
15611 I develop philosophical science from the simplest appearance of immediate consciousness [Hegel, by Hegel]
21774 Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21773 Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22033 Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts [Hegel, by Pinkard]
5647 Hegel claims knowledge of self presupposes desire, and hence objects [Hegel, by Scruton]
5648 For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world [Hegel, by Scruton]
22034 Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social [Hegel, by Pinkard]
21987 History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom [Hegel]
20741 Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts [Hegel, by Aho]
6917 God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker [Hegel, by Feuerbach]
6915 Hegel made the last attempt to restore Christianity, which philosophy had destroyed [Hegel, by Feuerbach]
21770 Consciousness is both of objects, and of itself [Hegel]
21771 Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being [Hegel]
22082 Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons [Hegel]
21775 The God of revealed religion can only be understood through pure speculative knowledge [Hegel]
8927 Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality [Hegel]
8928 The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited [Hegel]
8929 In the Absolute everything is the same [Hegel]
7077 The true is the whole [Hegel]
8930 The in-itself must become for-itself, which requires self-consciousness [Hegel]
8931 The movement of pure essences constitutes the nature of scientific method [Hegel]
8932 Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions [Hegel]
8933 Science confronts the inner necessities of objects [Hegel]
8934 Being is Thought [Hegel]
8935 Without philosophy, science is barren and futile [Hegel]
8936 Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds [Hegel]