The Logic of Hegel
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By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 12 Oct, 2019
FROM THE INTRODUCTION.........Philosophy misses an advantage enjoyed by the other sciences. It cannot like them rest the existence of its objects on the natural admissions of consciousness, nor can it assume that its method of cognition, either for s ... Read more
FROM THE INTRODUCTION.........Philosophy misses an advantage enjoyed by the other sciences. It cannot like them rest the existence of its objects on the natural admissions of consciousness, nor can it assume that its method of cognition, either for starting or for continuing, is one already accepted. The objects of philosophy, it is true, are upon the whole the same as those of religion. In both the object is Truth, in that supreme sense in which God and God only is the Truth. Both in like manner go on to treat of the finite worlds of Nature and the human Mind, with their relation to each other and to their truth in God. Some acquaintance with its objects, therefore, philosophy may and even must presume, that and a certain interest in them to boot, were it for no other reason than this: that in point of time the mind makes general images of objects, long before it makes notions of them, and that it is only through these mental images, and by recourse to them, that the thinking mind rises to know and comprehend thinkingly. Less
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) Was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rous...
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