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Single Idea 8929
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
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Full Idea
In the Absolute everything is the same.
Gist of Idea
In the Absolute everything is the same
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 16)
Book Ref
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.9
A Reaction
This is indistinguishable from the great spherical reality of Parmenides. It is not unreasonable to enquire about the epistemology of this claim. Is Hegel a seer, or can we all intuit this insight into reality?
The
38 ideas
with the same theme
[reality is an ultimate unity of all ideas]:
21971
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Transcendental philosophy is the subject becoming the originator of unified reality
[Kant]
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22067
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Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe
[Novalis]
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22032
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Fichte's key claim was that the subjective-objective distinction must itself be subjective
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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21966
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Self-consciousness is the basis of knowledge, and knowing something is knowing myself
[Fichte]
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21967
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There is nothing to say about anything which is outside my consciousness
[Fichte]
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21969
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Awareness of reality comes from the free activity of consciousness
[Fichte]
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20951
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The absolute I divides into consciousness, and a world which is not-I
[Fichte, by Bowie]
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21964
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Reason arises from freedom, so philosophy starts from the self, and not from the laws of nature
[Fichte]
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21968
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Abandon the thing-in-itself; things only exist in relation to our thinking
[Fichte]
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22300
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Existence is just a set of relationships
[Hegel]
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21774
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Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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8928
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The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited
[Hegel]
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8929
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In the Absolute everything is the same
[Hegel]
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8934
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Being is Thought
[Hegel]
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20954
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The 'absolute idea' is when all the contradictions are exhausted
[Hegel, by Bowie]
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21972
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Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are
[Hegel, by Moore,AW]
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22038
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Hegel's non-subjective idealism is the unity of subjective and objective viewpoints
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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22044
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Hegel claimed his system was about the world, but it only mapped conceptual interdependence
[Pinkard on Hegel]
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21464
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The Absolute is the primitive system of concepts which are actualised
[Hegel, by Gardner]
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21975
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The absolute idea is being, imperishable life, self-knowing truth, and all truth
[Hegel]
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21976
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The absolute idea is the great unity of the infinite system of concepts
[Hegel, by Moore,AW]
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22084
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Authentic thinking and reality have the same content
[Hegel]
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22074
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We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom
[Schelling]
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21925
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For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves
[Schelling, by Lewis,PB]
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22045
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Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints
[Schelling, by Pinkard]
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22072
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Schelling always affirmed the absolute status of freedom
[Schelling, by Courtine]
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19447
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The Absolute is the 'and' which unites 'spirit and nature'
[Feuerbach]
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23044
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All knowledge rests on a fundamental unity between the knower and what is known
[Green,TH, by Muirhead]
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6404
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British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself
[Bradley, by Grayling]
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22299
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Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it
[Bradley, by Potter]
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21343
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Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance
[Bradley, by Heil]
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22055
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The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices
[Bowie]
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22054
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German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity
[Bowie]
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22056
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Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement
[Bowie]
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20950
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German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure
[Bowie]
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22332
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German and British idealism is not about individual ideas, but the intelligibility of reality
[Glock]
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21911
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Fichte, Hegel and Schelling developed versions of Absolute Idealism
[Lewis,PB]
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21912
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Fichte, Schelling and Hegel rejected transcendental idealism
[Lewis,PB]
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