Undoubtedly it is strange to hear that Hegel backs his absolute idealism on history and not on a purely rational or metaphysical argument. However, he is not proceeding differently from the other representatives of German Idealism. Kant had already backed his transcendental idealism on the fact of science, in other words, on an event in …
While discussing space, Hegel states that the Kantian theory of space – if the subjective idealism of this theory is ignored – is a good explanation of space. And indeed, the way Hegel describes space here is very similar to what Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason says about space. Both philosophers insist on …
The most important aspect of what is called categories is that they are not products of our thought or of reflecting reality, but that we meet them ready-made, as it were. We only become aware of them, and of the fact that they have always been there in our minds, while coping with all kinds …