By Karin de Boer
Concentrating on the technology of common sense , this wide-ranging and cutting edge examining exposes the strength in addition to the restrict of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a sort of negativity that demanding situations the optimism inherent in modernity and Hegelian dialectics alike.
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Regarding the realms of thought and sense perception as absolutely heterogeneous, he raised ‘non-identity . . into an absolute principle’ (10/81). According to Hegel, Kant rightly considered thought to depend on pure concepts 32 On Hegel such as substance and causality to acquire knowledge of something, but he should not have denied thought the capacity to achieve knowledge independent of sense perception (104/164). , . . took the shape of the opposition between reason and sensibility, intelligence and nature, and, with respect to the universal concept, between absolute subjectivity and absolute objectivity.
Into an absolute principle’ (10/81). According to Hegel, Kant rightly considered thought to depend on pure concepts 32 On Hegel such as substance and causality to acquire knowledge of something, but he should not have denied thought the capacity to achieve knowledge independent of sense perception (104/164). , . . took the shape of the opposition between reason and sensibility, intelligence and nature, and, with respect to the universal concept, between absolute subjectivity and absolute objectivity.
As something beyond their reach. But the liberation from the opposition of consciousness . . demands that the [determinations of thought] be considered . . as that which is logical and the product of pure reason. (45/51) 42 On Hegel 7. From the Ego to the Concept Although the Critique of Pure Reason merely traces back the pure concepts to the synthetic activity of the understanding, Hegel affirmed that Kant thus paved the way for a genuine deduction of these concepts (cf. Enc I, § 33). Such a deduction should take its bearings from a principle that precedes the opposition between subject and object commonly attributed to Kant.