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Single Idea 16011

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics ]

Full Idea

Hegel is a Johannes Climacus who does not storm the heavens, like the giants, by putting mountain upon mountain, but climbs aboard them by way of his syllogisms.

Gist of Idea

Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms

Source

comment on Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Søren Kierkegaard - The Journals of Kierkegaard 2A

Book Ref

Kierkegaard,Søren: 'Journals and Papers Selection', ed/tr. Hannay,Alistair [Penguin 1996], p.100


A Reaction

[Idea from SY] This appears to be an attempt at insulting Hegel for his timidity, but it seems to be describing the cautious approach which most modern philosophers take to be correct. [PG]


The 20 ideas from 'works'

Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate]
The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton]
Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything [Hegel, by Scruton]
For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era [Hegel, by Houlgate]
Hegel reputedly claimed to know a priori that there are five planets [Hegel, by Field,H]
When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural [Hegel]
Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity [Hegel, by Graham]
Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains [Hegel, by Eldridge]
Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society [Hegel, by Scruton]
Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof [Schopenhauer on Hegel]
Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses [Hegel, by Cioran]
Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida]
Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms [Kierkegaard on Hegel]
For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature [Hegel, by Russell]
On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel [Benardete,JA on Hegel]
Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie]
Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction [Hegel, by Meillassoux]