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Title: George Freidrich Willhelm Hegel


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George Freidrich WillhelmHegel
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Philosophy of modernity
  • On contradictory principles of Enlightenment
    thought
  • Using principles immanent in modernity rather
    than abstract or universal
  • Rational reconstruction of entirety of European
    thought from classical Greek philosophy to the
    Enlightenment
  • Both history and the history of thought
    (philosophy) are part of a process unfolding
    towards a final end - the attainment of absolute
    knowledge
  • Absolute knowledge a social world in which
    there is general awareness of the universal force
    by which everything is regulated
  • Modernity commences with the c.16th Protestant
    Reformation, and the realization that Man is in
    his very essence destined to be free. (Lectures
    on the Philosophy of History)

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Contradictions of Modernity
  • State vs. civil society
  • Private market behaviour vs the common good
  • Facts in the world vs. universal values from
    without
  • Contingency vs. necessity
  • Productive rather than problematic
  • Contradiction is at the root of all movement
    and life, and it is only in so far as it contains
    a contradiction that anything moves and has
    impulse and activity.

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Critique of Enlightenment
  • Abstract idea of Reason
  • Undifferentiated and unconditioned Freedom
  • Absolute freedom (Rousseaus General Will)
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