If he or she is unable to recognize the good character of a moral law but just obeys it, he remains in what Kant called the stage of nonage of reason, namely in a condition where he is unable to think with his own understanding but just follows what others are telling him to do. …
The question of whether space is subjective or objective is meaningless in Hegel. We are spatial beings, this is the way we experience ourselves, and experience is the ‘final frontier’ in Hegel: you cannot go beyond it to see how this experience is made up. Such an approach is very similar to what Kant calls …
Whitehead says that in every philosophical theory, there is an ultimate that is endowed with accidents (Whitehead, 1978, p. 7). In Whitehead, this ultimate is creativity. Accidents are necessary in order to characterize things. The logical meaning of accidents is predicates that are enounced about a logical subject. You do not know anything about something …
It is important to note in the context of discussing some differences between Hegel’s and Kant’s approach to space that, unlike Kant, Hegel is not much interested in discussing the quality of space, i.e., its relatedness to our intuition or the way we perceive spatiality, but rather in its meaning. As in his general approach, …
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 …