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 …
It may sound odd to say that matter is the first occurrence of Spirit in the real world because gravity is the most elementary feature of matter. But actually, this is the sense of Hegel’s words when he says: ‘Initially, matter is the form in which the self-externality of nature attains its first being-in-self. It …
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 …
We are not only tied to our past emotionally but also intellectually or conceptually. This happens because you not only live an emotion that you experience for the first time and shapes your emotional life, but that experience also makes you think that this is how things are, how the world and you are. And …
Have you ever thought that during our lives, we constantly reshape the content of the experiences we make so that they match a specific personal pattern, a specific self-perception? To give a very intuitive example: a man who despises women might constantly misinterpret the behaviors of any woman he meets so that that behavior becomes …
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 …