TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gentry, Gerad
T1  - Hegel’s logic of purposiveness
T2  - Kantian legacies in German idealism
N2  - I argue that Hegel’s Logic traces an emergent-purposive, logical method that entails two key identities in reason. These identities are (1) between a logic of freedom and necessity, and (2) between the possibilities of a priori and a posteriori reasoning in a purposive method. The purposive method of the Logic is the basis for these identities and, in Hegel’s view, facilitates the transition from Kant’s transcendental idealism to absolute idealism. I suggest that this method is Hegel’s attempt to rework a critique of philosophy according to Kant’s insight about the principle grounding the formal purposiveness of the faculties, what Hegel calls, “one of Kant’s greatest services to philosophy.”
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-1-032-00160-9
SN  - 978-1-138-36736-4
SN  - 978-0-429-42982-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429429828
SP  - 36
EP  - 70
PB  - Routledge
CY  - New York ; London
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gentry, Gerad
T1  - Introduction
BT  - the legacies of Kant in German Idealism
T2  - Kantian legacies in German Idealism
N2  - Kant wrote in the Critique of Pure Reason, “For the law of reason to seek unity is necessary, since without it we would have no reason, and without that, no coherent use of the understanding, and, lacking that, no sufficient mark of empirical truth.” This unity of reason, taken as a holistic condition, was central to the convictions of the idealists. To them, Kant layed bare the right path forward, but also fundamental failings in his execution of a critique of reason which needed to be overcome in order for reason to secure its own, internal end. In this chapter, I discuss key themes in the positive inheritance of Kant’s thought in classical German philosophy and offer an overview of the arguments and significances of each contribution to this volume. The aim is not to minimize important differences between Kant and post-Kantian Idealists, but rather to emphasize core retentions of Kant’s thought.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-0-42942-982-8
SN  - 978-1-032-00160-9
SN  - 978-1-138-36736-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429429828
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Routledge
CY  - New York
ER  -