Reason in the world : Hegel's metaphysics and its philosophical appeal / James Kreines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kreines, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 290 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy. It is argued that Hegel's project in his central 'Science of Logic' has a single organising focus, provided by the metaphilosophical commitment that metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy. Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with the reasons, or conditions in terms of which things can be explained.

Contents:

Primitive and mediate reasons : immanent concepts from mechanism to teleology

The dialectic of mechanism

Against empiricist metaphysics and for the concept thesis and the metaphysics of reason

Kant's challenge and Hegel's defense of natural teleology : the concept as the substance of life

The inescapable problem of complete reasons

Kant's dialectic critique of metaphysics

Kant's dialectic argument and the restriction of knowledge

The opening for Hegel's response to Kant's dialectic

Complete reasons : from the idea to the absolute idea

Against the metaphysics of the understanding and the final subject or substratum

Insubstantial holism and the real contradiction of the lawful : chemism

The idea

Free kind for itself : from the metaphysics of the absolute idea to epistemological monism and idealism

Conclusion of the logic : dialectic, contradiction, and absolute knowledge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-027286-4

0-19-020432-X

0-19-020431-1

OCLC:

922973377