Background Information
Location and theory of knowledge of Hegel.
What is German Idealism?
______ as totality of conceptual truth
______ as absolute mind
Same word for both
What is reality?
French rationalism and British Empiricism
What were the existing influences?
Nothing can function in isolation, but rather only as a sustained and sustaining part of the organic totality to which it belongs.
What is organicism?
The things that make up life and what happens in it
What are mistakes?
Hegel's main influence of German Idealism.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
"The real is the rational, and the rational is the real."
This philosophy seeks to understand what the human spirit craves to know.
What is the meaning of human experience?
What is the meaning of life?
The subject Hegel studied in college
What is philosophy?
The claim that the understanding of any aspect of human life must be concerned primarily with its history, evolution, genesis, and/or its roots rather than its simple evolution.
What is Historicism?
"A man is nothing but the series of his actions."
"For anything to happen, everything must be in place."
Who is Hegel?
Previous philosopher (in the book) who also influenced Hegel's thinking.
Who is Plato?
Plato's theory argued that concepts exist separately and independently in their realm of being.
Hegel's theory argued that concepts have no independent existence.
What is the theory of concepts?
Hegel's theory of reality
Any of the following
What is Metaphysics?
What is the absolute truth?
To live according to nature is the highest good; reason then governs me as it does the cosmos and I can be indifferent to pain or disappointments.
What is stoicism?
Examples are yoga, and enlightenment
What is spiritual awareness?
Most institutions where Hegel was employed
What is a school/university?
A single identity incorporating all the differences of experience and knowledge.
What is the absolute mind?
The Triadic process of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis
What is Hegel's theory of Dialectic?
Rejecting the world completely by doubting it entirely.
What is skepticism?
Treat others the way you want to be treated
What is the Golden Rule?
Name something Hegel wrote
Any of the following: What is...
The Phenomenology of Spirit
The Science of Logic
The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
The Elements of the Philosophy of Right
To identify all of the dimensions or aspects of reality and to show how all dimensions are interconnected.
What is Hegel's task of metaphysics?
Hegel's philosophy was closely consistent with this religion.
What is Christianity?
The philosopher (who we haven't discussed yet) that derived much influence from Hegel
Who is Marx?
"Sublation"
Overcoming and at the same time preserving
What is Aufhebung?