Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Citations
- Preface
- PART I HEGEL'S CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS: A STUDY OF THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE
- Introduction
- 1 Transcendental logic and dialectical logic: from Kant to Hegel, a critique of all dogmatic metaphysics
- 2 Twists and turns of Hegel's contradiction
- 3 Ground against concept?
- 4 What is rational is actual, what is actual is rational
- Conclusion
- PART II POINT OF VIEW OF MAN OR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Ground against concept?
from PART I - HEGEL'S CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS: A STUDY OF THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Citations
- Preface
- PART I HEGEL'S CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS: A STUDY OF THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE
- Introduction
- 1 Transcendental logic and dialectical logic: from Kant to Hegel, a critique of all dogmatic metaphysics
- 2 Twists and turns of Hegel's contradiction
- 3 Ground against concept?
- 4 What is rational is actual, what is actual is rational
- Conclusion
- PART II POINT OF VIEW OF MAN OR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In presenting the section on “Ground,” I shall develop the three following points. First, I will show how on the ruins of dogmatic metaphysics after Kantian critical philosophy, Hegel rebuilds a metaphysics of being as being thought, whose corner-stone is his explanation of “ground.” Second, I will show how, with the different figures of “ground,” a totality of thought-determinations is progressively constituted. This constitution, like any process of reflection in the Doctrine of Essence, goes through a moment of dogmatic metaphysics, a moment of empiricism and critical (transcendental) philosophy, and a moment of dialectical logic. These different moments introduce a surprising degree of flexibility into the constitution of the totality. They lead us to examine the relation between ground and concept in Hegel's system. Third and finally, I propose to show how Hegel's rejection of the Kantian problem of the thing in itself is confirmed by a new definition of the “unconditioned.”
Hegel's ground and Kant's transcendental unity of apperception
It is with “ground” that Hegel leads us from his criticism of the illusory independence of the determinations of being to the exposition of the productivity proper to essence. The border between these two aspects of essence as “reflection in itself” is of course porous. Hegel's examination of identity, difference, and contradiction already showed that it is through reflection that the determinations of being are presented.
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- Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics , pp. 85 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007