Hegel’s logic of purposiveness
- 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.”
| Author details: | Gerad GentryORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429429828 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-032-00160-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-138-36736-4 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-429-42982-8 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Kantian legacies in German idealism |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Place of publishing: | New York ; London |
| Publication type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/05/11 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2024/01/23 |
| Number of pages: | 35 |
| First page: | 36 |
| Last Page: | 70 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Philosophie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
