Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations and translations
- 1 The Hegel–Nietzsche debate
- 2 Nietzsche's view of Hegel
- 3 Nietzsche and metaphysics
- 4 Hegel and metaphysics
- 5 Speculative thought and language in Hegel's philosophy
- 6 Hegel's conception of the judgement
- 7 Context and the immanence of rationality in Hegel's Phenomenology
- 8 Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Hegel's conception of the judgement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations and translations
- 1 The Hegel–Nietzsche debate
- 2 Nietzsche's view of Hegel
- 3 Nietzsche and metaphysics
- 4 Hegel and metaphysics
- 5 Speculative thought and language in Hegel's philosophy
- 6 Hegel's conception of the judgement
- 7 Context and the immanence of rationality in Hegel's Phenomenology
- 8 Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
So far I have examined the criticisms made by Hegel and Nietzsche of the mode of oppositional thinking which both call ‘metaphysical’, and I have also examined the alternatives to such metaphysics which the two philosophers propose. In the course of this exposition I have indicated what I believe is the most important difference between Hegel and Nietzsche: the fact that Nietzsche bases his critique of metaphysical distinctions on the distinction between life and thought, whereas Hegel subjects all such distinctions to an immanent, dialectical critique, in which the speculative, dialectical character of reason is seen to inhere in the categories and forms of thought themselves. In chapter 8 I will try to highlight this general difference by looking at the treatment which Hegel and Nietzsche give to a specific area of philosophical interest, namely tragedy. Before that, however, the idea that Hegel's speculative rationality is immanent in the forms of human thought and consciousness and does not, as Nietzsche maintains, transcend those forms, needs to be developed further. Chapters 6 and 7 will therefore attempt to reinforce this ‘immanent’ interpretation of speculative thought by looking at two areas of Hegel's philosophy: his treatment of the speculative character of the judgement in the Science of Logic, and his understanding of context and the immanence of rationality in the Phenomenology.
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- Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics , pp. 157 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986