Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God,9780521844840

Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God

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ISBN13: 9780521844840
ISBN10: 0521844843
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-04-04
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book shows that the repeated announcements of the death of Hegel's philosophical system have been premature. Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, Reality, and God brings to light accomplishments for which Hegel is seldom given credit: unique arguments for the reality of freedom, for the reality of knowledge, for the irrationality of egoism, and for the compatibility of key insights from traditional theism and naturalistic atheism. The book responds in a systematic manner to many of the major criticisms leveled at Hegel's system, from Feuerbach and Kierkegaard to Heidegger and Charles Taylor. It provides detailed interpretations of Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, large parts of his indispensable Science of Logic, and important parts of his Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Right. Unlike many academic books on Hegel, this one treats him very much as a 'live' thinker, whom we can learn from today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xv
Publication Citation Style xvii
Preface xxiii
Introduction
1(9)
Our Commitment to Individualism and Our Problems With It
1(4)
Hegel Endorses Individualism -- As a Point of Departure
5(5)
Naturalism, Plato, Kant, and Hegel on Reason, Freedom, Responsibility, Ethics, and God
10(38)
Kant and Hegel on the Will
10(8)
Is This ``Freedom'' Actually Slavery (For the ``Inclinations'')?
18(2)
Is This ``Freedom'' Ethically Empty?
20(2)
Is This ``Going Beyond'' Really ``Freedom''?
22(5)
Individualism and Ethics: Hobbes and Gauthier
27(4)
An Early Critic of Hobbes and Gauthier: Plato on the Will and Justice
31(8)
Kant on Individualism (``Autonomy'') and Ethics: The Apparent Failure of a Great Argument
39(3)
Hegel's Reformulation of Kant's Argument from Autonomy to Ethics
42(2)
Kant and Hegel on God and the World
44(4)
Reality, Freedom, and God (Science of Logic I)
48(93)
Introduction
48(5)
Objective Thinking
53(1)
Being
54(5)
Determinate Being, Quality, and the Beginning of the Subject
59(5)
``Negativity,'' or the ``Negation of the Negation''
64(2)
Finite Being
66(3)
The Finite and the Infinite
69(4)
Infinity, Freedom, and Nature
73(3)
Spurious Infinity and True Infinity
76(4)
Empiricism, Dualism, and True Infinity
80(2)
How Hegel's Position Relates to ``Compatibilism'' and ``Incompatibilism''
82(1)
True Infinity, ``Striving,'' and ``Actuality''
83(3)
True Infinity and the ``Negation of the Negation''
86(2)
Substance and Subject
88(3)
Modernity and ``Metaphysics'': Hegel and His Predecessors
91(1)
Reality and Ideality, ``Realism'' and ``Idealism''
92(4)
True Infinity and God
96(7)
Two Contrasting Critiques of Hegel's Theology: Heidegger and Magee
103(6)
Knowledge, Skepticism, and True Infinity
109(7)
Knowledge and ``Faith''
116(2)
Earlier Versions of These Ideas, in Hegel's Development
118(4)
Charles Taylor's Interpretation of True Infinity
122(4)
Hegel Not An ``Atomist''
126(1)
Being-For-Self and the ``Collapse'' of True Infinity
127(5)
Atomism
132(4)
Social Atomism
136(5)
Identity, Contradiction, Actuality, and Freedom (Science of Logic II)
141(73)
Introduction to Chapters 4 and 5
141(2)
Quantity and the Theme of ``Unity''
143(4)
Measure
147(5)
Absolute Indifference
152(2)
Beyond Absolute Indifference: Essence
154(1)
Introduction to Essence: Being-in-and-for-Self
155(4)
Essence as Shine and Negativity: Hegel's New Conception of Immediacy or Being, and His Critique of ``The Given''
159(10)
Essence as Reflection
169(6)
The Reflection-Determinations: Identity and Difference
175(3)
The Reflection-Determinations: Difference
178(2)
The Reflection-Determinations: From Diversity to Opposition
180(4)
The Reflection-Determinations: From Opposition to Contradiction
184(6)
From Reflection to Actuality
190(2)
From Actuality to Absolute Necessity
192(5)
The Actual and the Rational
197(2)
Substance and Causality
199(3)
From Reciprocal Action to Freedom
202(6)
What Sort of ``Freedom'' is This?
208(6)
Freedom, God, and the Refutation of Rational Egoism (Science of Logic III)
214(54)
From Substance to the ``Concept''
214(2)
The Concept as ``Free Love'' and True Infinity
216(2)
Why Call This a ``Concept''?
218(6)
Substance and Subject
224(4)
Particularity and Singularity; ``Abstractness'' and ``Emptiness'' Versus ``Concreteness''
228(3)
The ``Emptiness'' of Kant's Principle of Ethics
231(2)
The Concept and the Will (Philosophy of Right, Introduction)
233(4)
From the Concept (``Subjectivity'') to Objectivity
237(2)
From Objectivity to the ``Idea''
239(4)
The ``Idea,'' Reason, and Actuality
243(3)
Can Metaphysics, Like This, Be Rationally Defended?
246(1)
The Idea, the ``Cunning'' of Reason, and ``God''
247(2)
The Idea as Life
249(1)
The ``Genus'': Universality and ``Identity with the Other''
250(3)
The ``Death'' of the Living Individual
253(5)
The Idea as ``Cognition,'' or Spirit
258(2)
The Absolute Idea as a Refutation of Egoism
260(5)
``Method'' as Being and as Result: The Circle Closes
265(3)
Nature, Freedom, Ethics, and God (The Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Spirit)
268(51)
From Logic to Nature to Spirit
268(2)
Subjectivity Within Nature
270(6)
Spirit
276(3)
Subjective Spirit: ``Soul''
279(4)
Subjective Spirit: ``Consciousness''
283(9)
Self-Consciousness, ``Recognition,'' And Reason
285(7)
Subjective Spirit: ``Spirit as Such,'' Theoretical, Practical, and Free
292(6)
Objective Spirit: Introduction
298(1)
Objective Spirit: Abstract ``Right,'' Property and Wrong
298(1)
Objective Spirit: ``Morality,'' Conscience and Evil
299(3)
Objective Spirit: ``Ethical Life'' (Sittlichkeit)
302(6)
Absolute Spirit: Introduction
308(4)
Absolute Spirit: Art
312(1)
Absolute Spirit: Revealed Religion
313(3)
Absolute Spirit: Philosophy
316(3)
Conclusion
319(4)
Index 323

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