Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 2 (of 3)

Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 2 (of 3)

The development of philosophic science as science, and, further, the progress from the Socratic point of view to the scientific, begins with Plato and is completed by Aristotle. They of all others deserve to be called teachers of the human race. Plato, who must be numbered among the Socratics, was the most renowned of the friends and disciples of Socrates, and he it was who grasped in all its truth Socrates great principle that ultimate reality lies in consciousness, since, according to him, the absolute is in thought, and all reality is Thought. He does not understand by this a one-sided thought, nor what is understood by the false idealism which makes thought once more step aside and contemplate itself as conscious thought, and as in opposition to reality; it is the thought which embraces in an absolute unity reality as well as thinking, the Notion and its reality in the movement of science, as the Idea of a scientific whole. While Socrates had comprehended the thought which is existent in and for itself, only as an object for self-conscious will, Plato forsook this narrow point of view, and brought the merely abstract right of self-conscious thought, which Socrates had[2] raised to a principle, into the sphere of science. By so doing he rendered it possible to interpret and apply the principle, though his manner of representation may not be altogether scientific. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 51636
Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Release Date: Apr 2, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson, 1862-1937, Simson, Frances H.