On Naturalism in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8090569
AutoresJ Peters (0000-0002-4836-4204)
Año2015
Volumen24
Número1
Páginas111-131
Fecha de publicación2015-07-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0960-8788 • E-ISSN: 1469-3526
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09608788.2015.1055231
OpenAlexW1502108650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas7

In recent years, philosophers have become increasingly interested in a Hegelian approach to Aristotelian non-reductive naturalism. This paper points out a challenge faced by naturalist readings of Hegel's conception of spirit. For Hegel, spirit and nature are essentially distinct and even related in an antagonistic way. It is difficult to do full justice to this thought while at the same time reading Hegel as a naturalist. The paper also seeks to suggest a response to this challenge. Drawing on Hegel's account of mechanism in his philosophy of spirit, it shows that processes which can count as natural – such as mechanical processes – constitute for Hegel an integral and indispensable part of spiritual activity. Against this background, it is possible to develop a form of Hegelian naturalism which does not lose sight of the essential distinction, even opposition of spirit and nature

Epistemology · Hegelianism · Naturalism · Opposition (politics · Reading (process · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Law · Philosophy