Single Idea 22033

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation]

Full Idea

Hegel tried to avoid the untenable Kantian dualism between concepts and intuitions, and the Kantian mechanism of the 'imposition' of concepts on sensibility entailed by that dualism (with intuition having neutral content).

Gist of Idea

Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 09

Book Reference

Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.224


A Reaction

[Pinker is describing the opening of Phenomenology] In modern discussions this concerns the idea of The Given, which is wholly uninterpreted raw experience. Sellars and MacDowell. Kant seems to split an agent into two (Master/Slave).