created by iunoionnis on 17/06/2018 at 00:59 UTC
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Comment by iunoionnis at 17/06/2018 at 01:00 UTC
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Abstract:
Sebastian Rödl has rightly identified the heart of German Idealism, the principle “that self-consciousness, freedom and reason are one.” The fact that this formulation requires abstractions of this magnitude, and that the formulation is an identification of concepts that seem different, not identical, is not accidental.
Arguably, the most ambitious and the most difficult single book in that post-Kantian Idealist tradition is Hegel’s three part, two volume, *The Science of Logic*. (Arguably, because there are many other worthy contenders for the “most difficult” title.) I propose to bring to bear Rödl’s theory of self-consciousness on that book in a way that will demonstrate that what he identifies as the heart of German Idealism is certainly right. I am not sure that the uses to which I will put his theory in discussing the Logic are, at the end of the day, still recognizably his, but his account opens up a way of discussing the importance of the topic of self-consciousness for what both Kant and the post-Kantians called “logic.”
Text of paper: http://aristoteliansociety.org.uk/pdf/pippin.pdf
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