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Single Idea 15618

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Full Idea

When the concept of God is apprehended merely as that of the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God becomes for us a mere Beyond, and there can be no further talk of the cognition of God.

Gist of Idea

If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Logic (Encyclopedia I) [1817], §36 Add)

Book Ref

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'The Hegel Reader', ed/tr. Houlgate,Stephen [Blackwell 1998], p.150

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]