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Single Idea 8934
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
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Full Idea
Being is Thought.
Gist of Idea
Being is Thought
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 54)
Book Ref
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.33
A Reaction
You won't find a more succinct slogan for idealism than that. Speaking as what Tim Williamson (referring to himself) calls a 'rottweiler realist', I can't quite get the hang of Hegel's claim. What does he think thought is, if it isn't about the world?
The
28 ideas
from 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
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21776
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Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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22035
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The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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15611
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I develop philosophical science from the simplest appearance of immediate consciousness
[Hegel, by 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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21773
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Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being
[Hegel, by Houlgate]
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22033
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Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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5647
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Hegel claims knowledge of self presupposes desire, and hence objects
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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5648
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For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world
[Hegel, by Scruton]
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22034
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Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social
[Hegel, by Pinkard]
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21987
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History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom
[Hegel]
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20741
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Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts
[Hegel, by Aho]
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6917
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God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker
[Hegel, by Feuerbach]
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6915
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Hegel made the last attempt to restore Christianity, which philosophy had destroyed
[Hegel, by Feuerbach]
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21770
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Consciousness is both of objects, and of itself
[Hegel]
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21771
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Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being
[Hegel]
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22082
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Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons
[Hegel]
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21775
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The God of revealed religion can only be understood through pure speculative knowledge
[Hegel]
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8927
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Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality
[Hegel]
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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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7077
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The true is the whole
[Hegel]
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8930
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The in-itself must become for-itself, which requires self-consciousness
[Hegel]
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8931
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The movement of pure essences constitutes the nature of scientific method
[Hegel]
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8932
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Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions
[Hegel]
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8933
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Science confronts the inner necessities of objects
[Hegel]
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8934
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Being is Thought
[Hegel]
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8935
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Without philosophy, science is barren and futile
[Hegel]
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8936
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Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds
[Hegel]
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