Substance, subject and infinity: a case study of the role of logic in Hegel's system

Horstmann, Rolf‐Peter

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“…Manyo fH egel'sc laims and formulationss upport this view,e .g., his invoking the concept of God in the prefacet othe Phenomenology or later claiming that "philosophyh as no othero bject but God and so is essentiallyr ational theology" (LA:p .101). Representative advocates of this view are Taylor (1975) and Beiser (2005),a sw ell as the Germans cholars Heinrich (1971), Horstmann (2006) and Siep (2014).…”

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Introduction: Hegel, Wittgenstein, Identity, Difference

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2019

Wittgenstein and Hegel

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We cannot but begin this volume with Wittgenstein'sfamous remark that "Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to saythat thingswhich look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that thingswhich look the same are reallydifferent." (MDC: p.157) Thisis, however,acasual remark, and it seems that we should not put too much emphasis on it.(Foradiscussion of how the remark should properlybeunderstood, see Chapter 20.) In compilingthis collection of essays we adopted from this remark the idea that the problem of difference in identity is the common topic between Hegel and Wittgenstein.¹ The remark presents ac ertain interplay(or,o ne might say, dialectics) of identity and difference. And it is questions of identity and differencebetween Hegel and Wittgenstein (with respect to certain aspects of theirworks,under certain interpretations, etc.) that are addressed by the essays in this volume. There are systematic reasons for investigating commonalities and differences between two philosophers: for example, that they approached the same problem or topic using the same or different methods and arrivedatthe sameoropposed conclusions. Such an investigation might be conducted ahistorically, without taking into account possible lines of influence. This would, however,contradict Hegel'sa nd Wittgenstein'sp hilosophical doctrines. Before we seta bout looking at particularpoints of identityand difference discussed in this volume, let us look at the philosophical and historicalc ontext of this topic. Analytic-continental split One of the reasons for bringingH egel and Wittgenstein together is to overcome or even go beyond what is known as the "analytic-continental split".² As is well known, at the beginning of the 20th century Russell and Moore, the founding fathers of analytic philosophy, revolted against Hegelianism. Analytic philosophy  Forthe sake of brevity,throughout this introductory chapter Ishall use names of thinkers, par-ticularlyHegel and Wittgenstein, metonymically,with the names standingfor their philosophical thought and the works where their thought is expressed.  The analytic-continental split has been addressed in manydifferent ways (cf. Bell et al. (2016) for ar epresentative sample of recent debates).

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Introduction: Hegel, Wittgenstein, Identity, Difference

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Wittgenstein and Hegel

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“…One fault line in recent work on the Philosophy of Right concerns whether we should follow Hegel's advice and read the Philosophy of Right in light of Hegel's metaphysics in the Logic. Despite its title, Hegel's Logic is not an account of what we would now call “formal logic”; rather, the Logic lays out Hegel's metaphysical account of the structure of all rationally intelligible processes (Horstmann, , 72–74; Neuhouser, , 41, 133; Nuzzo, ). Thom Brooks refers to intepretations that take Hegel's claim about the dependence of the Philosophy of Right on his Logic seriously as “systematic interpretations” (Brooks, , 3) .…”

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Hegel's social and political philosophy: Recent debates

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2016

Philosophy Compass

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This article discusses three topics that have been the subject of debate in recent scholarship on Hegel's social and political philosophy: first, the relevance of Hegel's systematic metaphysics for interpreting Hegel's social and political writings; second, the relation between recognition (Anerkennung), social institutions, and rational agency; and third, the connection between the constellation of institutions and norms that Hegel calls “ethical life” (Sittlichkeit) and Hegel's theory of freedom. This article provides a critical overview of the positions in these three debates. In the case of the first debate, I clarify the conceptual terrain by distinguishing between several kinds of systematicity that are at issue. In the case of the second debate, I argue that the views of two of the major participants, Axel Honneth and Robert Pippin, are in fact compatible. In the case of the third debate, I seek to clarify the connection in Hegel between two different ideas of freedom in ethical life, each of which has been emphasized by different interpreters of Hegel: the idea of freedom as non‐alienation and the idea of freedom as social freedom. I conclude with a discussion of the ways in which ethical life, for Hegel, enables the freedom of individuals.

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“…On my reading, Hegel develops a structural metaphysics of freedom in his Science of Logic (see Baumann 2012). In making this claim, I follow Horstmann (1984Horstmann ( , 2006, Iber (1990Iber ( , 2000 and others in reading Hegel's Logic as a pre-Kantian and structural metaphysics. As Iber puts it, 'reality, be it spiritual or natural reality, is essentially structured by relations of form (Formverhältnisse), which are in turn graspable according to the formalities of our thought structures ' (2000: 15).…”

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“…To this picture I have added the notion that the constellations discussed in the Logic ought to be understood in terms of Hegel's formula 'being with oneself in the other', and hence in terms of the degree of freedom something or someone enjoys with regard to his or her surroundings. Henrich (1976), Günther (1987), Flach (1995) and implicitly also Horstmann (2006) have noted that the entire Logic discusses successively improving versions of a basic triadic relation, whereupon one entity stands in relation to another as well as to the whole or the totality of their interrelation. 2 I have made the link to Hegel's famous definition of freedom as 'being with oneself in the other' or a 'return into' oneself through the other (PR: § §22, 23).…”

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Hegel on Market Laws and External Teleology

Baumann

2022

Hegel Bulletin

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By highlighting the logico-metaphysical undergirding of Hegel's discussion of the market, this article brings to light certain proto-Marxist or proto-socialist tendencies in Hegel as well as key disagreements with Adam Smith, which have been missed by recent studies like Herzog's Inventing the Market (2013). For Smith, market laws function like an impartial arbiter that rewards honest effort; his main worry is that individuals may fail to display virtues like honesty, probity and frugality, thereby hindering the smooth functioning of the market mechanism. For Hegel, by contrast, the market is a de-personalized player in its own right that imposes its arbitrary rule, a rule that does not reflect in any way the virtues and efforts of market participants. This assessment is easily overlooked, unless one realizes that Hegel believes the market to be functioning according to the structures that he discusses in the ‘Objectivity’ section in his Science of Logic. As a consequence of this assessment Hegel attributes a different role to the state than Smith does: Rather than aiding and shaping individuals, by means of institutions, education and health care, the state needs to address the structural functioning of market laws and, to some extent, inhibit its free-flowing functioning. Individuals need to re-appropriate their own social relations by organizing them along the lines of the logical organism or internal teleology. After outlining Hegel's interpretation and assessment of the market structures with the help of the Logic, I will discuss Hegel's demand for an organic state, that sublates and oversees the market, thereby safeguarding the important personal freedoms enjoyed by market participants.

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Substance, subject and infinity: a case study of the role of logic in Hegel's system

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Introduction: Hegel, Wittgenstein, Identity, Difference

Introduction: Hegel, Wittgenstein, Identity, Difference

Hegel's social and political philosophy: Recent debates

Hegel on Market Laws and External Teleology

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