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Single Idea 8215
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy
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Full Idea
Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book.
Gist of Idea
Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Jacques Derrida - Positions p.64
Book Ref
Derrida,Jacques: 'Positions' [Continuum 2002], p.64
A Reaction
Reference to 'the Book' connects this to the great religions which rely on one holy text. The implication is that Hegel was proposing one big solution to all problems. It is doubtful if many philosophers before Hegel dreamt of that either.
The
20 ideas
from 'works'
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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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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19661
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Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction
[Hegel, by Meillassoux]
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