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Single Idea 22081

[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason ]

Full Idea

Let thought follow its own course; and I think badly whenever I add something of my own.

Gist of Idea

Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §24 Add 2), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - Hegel p.100

Book Ref

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.100

A Reaction

The idea that reason has a course of its own is a mega-assumption, which I would only accept after a lot of persuasion, which I doubt that Hegel can provide. The modern analytic idea of metaphysics as logic has a similar basis.

The 46 ideas from 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)'

5644 In Hegel's logic it is concepts (rather than judgements or propositions) which are true or false [Hegel, by Scruton]
15607 We don't think with concepts - we think the concepts [Hegel]
15608 The act of thinking is the bringing forth of universals [Hegel]
15609 The sensible is distinguished from thought by being about singular things [Hegel]
15610 Active thought about objects produces the universal, which is what is true and essential of it [Hegel]
19070 Superficial truth is knowing how something is, which is consciousness of bare correctness [Hegel]
19072 In the deeper sense of truth, to be untrue resembles being bad; badness is untrue to a thing's nature [Hegel]
19071 The deeper sense of truth is a thing matching the idea of what it ought to be [Hegel]
19073 True philosophy aims at absolute unity, while our understanding sees only separation [Hegel]
21768 Logic is metaphysics, the science of things grasped in thoughts [Hegel]
22081 Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere [Hegel]
22078 Even simple propositions about sensations are filled with categories [Hegel]
15613 Real cognition grasps a thing from within itself, and is not satisfied with mere predicates [Hegel]
15612 Older metaphysics naively assumed that thought grasped things in themselves [Hegel]
15614 Old metaphysics tried to grasp eternal truths through causal events, which is impossible [Hegel]
15615 Older metaphysics became dogmatic, by assuming opposed assertions must be true and false [Hegel]
15616 If truth is just non-contradiction, we must take care that our basic concepts aren't contradictory [Hegel]
15617 In abstraction, beyond finitude, freedom and necessity must exist together [Hegel]
15618 If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable [Hegel]
15619 Empiricism made particular knowledge possible, and blocked wild claims [Hegel]
15620 Empiricism contains the important idea that we should see knowledge for ourselves, and be part of it [Hegel]
15622 Empiricism unknowingly contains and uses a metaphysic, which underlies its categories [Hegel]
15621 Empiricism of the finite denies the supersensible, and can only think with formal abstraction [Hegel]
15623 Humean scepticism, unlike ancient Greek scepticism, accepts the truth of experience as basic [Hegel]
15624 Free thinking has no presuppositions [Hegel]
15625 Sense perception is secondary and dependent, while thought is independent and primitive [Hegel]
15626 Categories create objective experience, but are too conditioned by things to actually grasp them [Hegel]
15628 The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea [Hegel]
15629 Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world [Hegel]
15630 Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas [Hegel]
15631 The ideal of reason is the unification of abstract identity (or 'concept') and being [Hegel]
15632 The Humean view stops us thinking about perception, and finding universals and necessities in it [Hegel]
15633 We establish unification of the Ideal by the ontological proof, deriving being from abstraction of thinking [Hegel]
15634 Thought about particulars is done entirely through categories [Hegel]
15635 The older conception of God was emptied of human features, to make it worthy of the Infinite [Hegel]
15636 The Cogito is at the very centre of the entire concern of modern philosophy [Hegel]
15637 Essence is the essential self-positing unity of immediacy and mediation [Hegel]
15638 Dialectic is the moving soul of scientific progression, the principle which binds science together [Hegel]
21767 Dialectic is seen in popular proverbs like 'pride comes before a fall' [Hegel]
15639 Socratic dialectic is subjective, but Plato made it freely scientific and objective [Hegel]
21980 God is the absolute thing, and also the absolute person [Hegel]
21981 The one substance is formless without the mediation of dialectical concepts [Hegel]
21986 Hegel's system has a vast number of basic concepts [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
21984 We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed [Hegel]
21595 Excluded middle is the maxim of definite understanding, but just produces contradictions [Hegel]
22300 Existence is just a set of relationships [Hegel]