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
- PART II POINT OF VIEW OF MAN OR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- 5 Point of view of man or knowledge of God. Kant and Hegel on concept, judgment, and reason
- 6 Hegel on Kant on judgment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Hegel on Kant on judgment
from PART II - POINT OF VIEW OF MAN OR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Citations
- Preface
- PART I HEGEL'S CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS: A STUDY OF THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE
- PART II POINT OF VIEW OF MAN OR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
- 5 Point of view of man or knowledge of God. Kant and Hegel on concept, judgment, and reason
- 6 Hegel on Kant on judgment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Hegel opens his 1802 article, Faith and Knowledge, with a virulent attack on the German Aufklärung and its descendants, the philosophies of Kant, Jacobi, and Fichte. According to Hegel, the Aufklärung resulted in the ironical situation that reason, which had at one time been the servant of a faith external to it, is now the servant of a faith internal to itself. Kant, says Hegel, endorses the impotence of reason when he allows it access only to knowledge of the finite, of what is given empirically. Kant pushes what is eternal or absolute into a beyond supposedly accessible only by faith. In so doing, he maintains the empirical domain unchanged, alongside that beyond, instead of thinking the unity of the empirical and the beyond, of the finite and the infinite, by negating the negation that is the finite:
In the Idea, however, finite and infinite are one, and hence finitude as such has vanished insofar as it was supposed to have truth and reality in and for itself. Yet what has been negated was only what is negative in it; and thus the true affirmation was posited. (GW 4, 324; S. 2, 301; Faith, 66)
According to Hegel, Kant's doctrine of the highest good (the unity of happiness and morality) is the clearest example of the powerlessness of Aufklärung to reconcile the finite and the infinite.
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- Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics , pp. 192 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007