Ideas from 'works' by Georg W.F.Hegel [1812], by Theme Structure

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

19635

Hegel produced modern optimism; he failed to grasp that consciousness never progresses [Cioran]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy

8215	Hegel was the last philosopher of the Book [Derrida]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

16011

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

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

5433	For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature [Russell]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

3301	On the continent it is generally believed that metaphysics died with Hegel [Benardete,JA]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

19661

Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction [Meillassoux]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

20952

Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Bowie]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

21777

Negation of negation doubles back into a self-relationship [Houlgate]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

5645	The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Scruton]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

5646	Hegel gives an ontological proof of the existence of everything [Scruton]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

21755

For Hegel, categories shift their form in the course of history [Houlgate]

21754

Our concepts and categories disclose the world, because we are part of the world [Houlgate]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

22079

Hegel said Kant's fixed categories actually vary with culture and era [Houlgate]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic

9225	Hegel reputedly claimed to know a priori that there are five planets [Field,H]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

21758

Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Houlgate]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

20414

Hegel's Absolute Spirit is the union of human rational activity at a moment, and whatever that sustains [Eldridge]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / c. Social contract

3909	Society isn’t founded on a contract, since contracts presuppose a society [Scruton]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

4347	When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

4188	Hegel's entire philosophy is nothing but a monstrous amplification of the ontological proof [Schopenhauer]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

6686	Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity [Graham]