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[filed under theme 28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof ]

Full Idea

Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof.

Gist of Idea

Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof

Source

comment on Georg W.F.Hegel (works [1812]) by Arthur Schopenhauer - Abstract of 'The Fourfold Root' Ch.II

Book Ref

Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.268

A Reaction

All massive a priori metaphysics is summed up in this argument, which is right at the core of philosophy.

The 207 ideas from Georg W.F.Hegel

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]
15612 Older metaphysics naively assumed that thought grasped things in themselves [Hegel]
15613 Real cognition grasps a thing from within itself, and is not satisfied with mere predicates [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]
22039 Geist is distinct from nature, not as a substance, but because of its normativity [Hegel, by Pinkard]
22040 Freedom is produced by the activity of the mind, and is not intrinsically given [Hegel]
21756 All revolutions result from spirit changing its categories, to achieve a deeper understanding [Hegel]
22077 Metaphysics is the lattice which makes incoming material intelligible [Hegel]
20109 Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs [Hegel, by Safranski]
23270 We should all agree that there is reason in history [Hegel]
23272 The human race matters, and individuals have little importance [Hegel]
23271 The goal of the world is Spirit's consciousness and enactment of freedom [Hegel]
23274 World history has no room for happiness [Hegel]
23275 The state of nature is one of untamed brutality [Hegel]
23276 The soul of the people is an organisation of its members which produces an essential unity [Hegel]
23273 In a good state the goal of the citizens and of the whole state are united [Hegel]
21974 The world seems rational to those who look at it rationally [Hegel]
21753 If we look at the world rationally, the world assumes a rational aspect [Hegel]
22042 Natural beauty is unimportant, because it doesn't show human freedom [Hegel, by Pinkard]
22043 Hegel largely ignores aesthetic pleasure, taste and beauty, and focuses on the meaning of artworks [Hegel, by Pinkard]
20413 For Hegel the importance of art concerns the culture, not the individual [Hegel, by Eldridge]
20394 The purpose of art is to reveal to Spirit its own nature [Hegel, by Davies,S]
21794 The main purpose of art is to express the unity of human life [Hegel]
18549 Nineteenth century aesthetics focused on art rather than nature (thanks to Hegel) [Hegel, by Scruton]
21795 What I hold true must also be part of my feelings and character [Hegel]
21793 Genuine truth is the resolution of the highest contradiction [Hegel]
20415 Art forms a bridge between the sensuous world and the world of pure thought [Hegel]
21757 Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel]
21798 To universalise 'give everything to the poor' leads to absurdity [Hegel]
21797 Immortality does not come at a later time, but when pure knowing Spirit fully grasps the universal [Hegel]
22041 Representatives by region ignores whether they care about the national interest [Hegel, by Pinkard]
21781 The absolute right is the right to have rights [Hegel]
21785 We are only free, with rights, if we claim our freedom, and there are no natural rights [Hegel, by Houlgate]
7083 Highest reason is aesthetic, and truth and good are subordinate to beauty [Hegel]
22035 The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard]
21776 Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit [Hegel, by Houlgate]
5647 Hegel claims knowledge of self presupposes desire, and hence objects [Hegel, by Scruton]
5648 For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world [Hegel, by Scruton]
15611 I develop philosophical science from the simplest appearance of immediate consciousness [Hegel, by Hegel]
21774 Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
20741 Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts [Hegel, by Aho]
21773 Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22033 Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts [Hegel, by Pinkard]
22034 Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social [Hegel, by Pinkard]
6917 God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker [Hegel, by Feuerbach]
6915 Hegel made the last attempt to restore Christianity, which philosophy had destroyed [Hegel, by Feuerbach]
21987 History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom [Hegel]
21770 Consciousness is both of objects, and of itself [Hegel]
21771 Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being [Hegel]
22082 Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons [Hegel]
21775 The God of revealed religion can only be understood through pure speculative knowledge [Hegel]
8927 Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality [Hegel]
8928 The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited [Hegel]
8929 In the Absolute everything is the same [Hegel]
7077 The true is the whole [Hegel]
8930 The in-itself must become for-itself, which requires self-consciousness [Hegel]
8931 The movement of pure essences constitutes the nature of scientific method [Hegel]
8932 Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions [Hegel]
8933 Science confronts the inner necessities of objects [Hegel]
8934 Being is Thought [Hegel]
8935 Without philosophy, science is barren and futile [Hegel]
8936 Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds [Hegel]
21796 Man is God if he raises himself, by denying his nature and finitude [Hegel]
21783 State slavery is a phase of education, moving towards a full culture [Hegel]
21784 Slavery is unjust, because humanity is essentially free [Hegel]
21790 Moral individuals become ethical when they see the social aspect of a matter [Hegel, by Houlgate]
8030 For Hegel, the moral life can only be led within a certain type of community [Hegel, by MacIntyre]
22085 Freedom requires us to submit to a family, or a corporation, or a state [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21988 In the 1840s Hegel seemed to defend society being right as it is, as a manifestation of Mind [Hegel, by Singer]
21787 Evil enters a good will when we believe we are doing right, but allow no criticism of our choice [Hegel, by Houlgate]
8029 You can't have a morality which is supplied by the individual, but is also genuinely universal [Hegel, by MacIntyre]
22051 The categorical imperative lacks roots in a historical culture [Hegel, by Bowie]
22766 Philosophy is exploration of the rational [Hegel]
22767 I aim to portray the state as a rational entity [Hegel]
21979 Wisdom emerges at the end of a process [Hegel]
21778 True liberal freedom is to pursue something, while being free to cease the pursuit [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21779 People assume they are free, but the options available are not under their control [Hegel]
22768 Subjective and objective are not firmly opposed, but merge into one another [Hegel]
22769 The concept of the will is the free will which wills its freedom [Hegel]
21780 A free will primarily wills its own freedoom [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22770 A person is a being which is aware of its own self-directed and free subjectivity [Hegel]
22771 Be a person, and respect other persons [Hegel]
22772 Personality overcomes subjective limitations and posits Dasein as its own [Hegel]
21782 Man has an absolute right to appropriate things [Hegel]
22773 Because only human beings can own property, everything else can become our property [Hegel]
22774 A community does not have the property-owning rights that a person has [Hegel]
22775 The owner of a thing is obviously the first person to freely take possession of it [Hegel]
22776 Slaves are partly responsible for their own condition [Hegel]
22777 Individuals must dedicate themselves to the ethical whole, and give their lives when asked [Hegel]
22778 Individuals can't leave the state, because they are natural citizens, and humans require a state [Hegel]
22779 The good is realised freedom [Hegel]
22780 It is a rejection of intellectual dignity to say that we cannot know the truth [Hegel]
22781 The categorical imperative is fine if you already have a set of moral principles [Hegel]
21786 Conscience is the right of the self to know what is right and obligatory, and thus make them true [Hegel]
22782 To have pagan beliefs and be a pagan are quite different [Hegel]
22783 Rights imply duties, and duties imply rights [Hegel]
22784 Love is ethical life in its natural form [Hegel]
22785 Even educated women are unsuited to science, philosophy, art and government [Hegel]
22786 Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness [Hegel]
22787 The family is the first basis of the state, but estates are a necessary second [Hegel]
22788 A human only become a somebody as a member of a social estate [Hegel]
22789 Society draws people, and requires their work, making them wholly dependent on it [Hegel]
22790 We cannot assert rights which are unnatural [Hegel]
22791 The state is the march of God in the world [Hegel]
21791 Social groups must focus on the state, which must in turn respect their inclusion and their will [Hegel]
21789 Slaves have no duties because they have no rights [Hegel]
22792 Individuals attain their right by discovering their self-consciousness in institutions [Hegel]
22793 Some religions lead to harsh servitude and the debasement of human beings [Hegel]
22795 People can achieve respect for their state by insight into its essence [Hegel]
22794 A fully developed state is conscious and knows what it wills [Hegel]
22796 A constitution embodies a nation's rights and condition [Hegel]
22798 Money is the best way to achieve just equality [Hegel]
22797 In modern states an individual's actions should be their choice [Hegel]
22799 The people do not have the ability to know the general will [Hegel]
22800 Majority rule means obligations can be imposed on me [Hegel]
21792 The state should reflect all interests, and not just popular will, or a popular party [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22801 The great man of the ages is the one who reveals and accomplishes the will of his time [Hegel]
22802 Wars add strength to a nation, and cure internal dissension [Hegel]
20953 Every concept depends on the counter-concepts of what it is not [Hegel, by Bowie]
21763 When we explicate the category of being, we watch a new category emerge [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22058 Hegel's 'absolute idea' is the interdependence of all truths to justify any of them [Hegel, by Bowie]
20954 The 'absolute idea' is when all the contradictions are exhausted [Hegel, by Bowie]
21972 Hegel, unlike Kant, said how things appear is the same as how things are [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
22038 Hegel's non-subjective idealism is the unity of subjective and objective viewpoints [Hegel, by Pinkard]
22044 Hegel claimed his system was about the world, but it only mapped conceptual interdependence [Pinkard on Hegel]
21464 The Absolute is the primitive system of concepts which are actualised [Hegel, by Gardner]
21765 The ground of a thing is not another thing, but the first thing's substance or rational concept [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22059 Kant's thing-in-itself is just an abstraction from our knowledge; things only exist for us [Hegel, by Bowie]
22083 Hegel believe that the genuine categories reveal things in themselves [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21762 To grasp an existence, we must consider its non-existence [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21760 Thinking of nothing is not the same as simply not thinking [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21766 Dialectic is the instability of thoughts generating their opposite, and then new more complex thoughts [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21761 If we start with indeterminate being, we arrive at being and nothing as a united pair [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21764 Thought about being leads to a string of other concepts, like becoming, quantity, specificity, causality... [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22037 Objectivity is not by correspondence, but by the historical determined necessity of Geist [Hegel, by Pinkard]
21983 Being and nothing are the same and not the same, which is the identity of identity and non-identity [Hegel]
21978 Hegel's dialectic is not thesis-antithesis-synthesis, but usually negation of negation of the negation [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
21977 Nothing exists, as thinkable and expressible [Hegel]
21985 The so-called world is filled with contradiction [Hegel]
21975 The absolute idea is being, imperishable life, self-knowing truth, and all truth [Hegel]
21976 The absolute idea is the great unity of the infinite system of concepts [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
22080 The nature of each category relates itself to another [Hegel]
22084 Authentic thinking and reality have the same content [Hegel]
21772 In absolute knowing, the gap between object and oneself closes, producing certainty [Hegel]
21769 We must start with absolute abstraction, with no presuppositions, so we start with pure being [Hegel]
3301 On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel [Benardete,JA on Hegel]
5433 For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature [Hegel, by Russell]
16011 Hegel doesn't storm the heavens like the giants, but works his way up by syllogisms [Kierkegaard on Hegel]
19635 Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses [Hegel, by Cioran]
8215 Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Hegel, by Derrida]
20952 Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie]
21755 For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21754 Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
22079 Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era [Hegel, by Houlgate]
21777 Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Hegel, by Houlgate]
5646 Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything [Hegel, by Scruton]
5645 The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton]
9225 Hegel reputedly claimed to know a priori that there are five planets [Hegel, by Field,H]
4347 When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural [Hegel]
6686 Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity [Hegel, by Graham]
21758 Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
20414 Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains [Hegel, by Eldridge]
3909 Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society [Hegel, by Scruton]
4188 Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof [Schopenhauer on Hegel]
19661 Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction [Hegel, by Meillassoux]