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Hegel's metaphysics and its philosophical appeal
This title defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy. It is argued that Hegel's project in his central 'Science of Logic' has a single organising focus, provided by the metaphilosophical commitment that metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy. Hegel pursues more specifically the metaphysics of reason, concerned with the reasons, or conditions in terms of which things can be explained.
Primitive and mediate reasons : immanent concepts from mechanism to teleology -- The dialectic of mechanism -- Against empiricist metaphysics and for the concept thesis and the metaphysics of reason -- Kant's challenge and Hegel's defense of natural teleology : the concept as the substance of life -- The inescapable problem of complete reasons -- Kant's dialectic critique of metaphysics -- Kant's dialectic argument and the restriction of knowledge -- The opening for Hegel's response to Kant's dialectic -- Complete reasons : from the idea to the absolute idea -- Against the metaphysics of the understanding and the final subject or substratum -- Insubstantial holism and the real contradiction of the lawful : chemism -- The idea -- Free kind for itself : from the metaphysics of the absolute idea to epistemological monism and idealism -- Conclusion of the logic : dialectic, contradiction, and absolute knowledge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reason in the World : Hegel's Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal