Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic

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ID19940807
AuthorsJohn McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-12-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueStudies in the Hegelian Dialectic (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139136587
OpenAlexW2128225383
Open LibraryOL29090195M
ISBN9781139136587
LanguageEN
Citations received7

What is the nature of dialectic according to Hegel? And what is achieved by its means? These are the main questions that John McTaggart (1866–1925) seeks to answer in this work, first published in 1896. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Cambridge-educated philosopher and fellow of Trinity College enjoyed a prominent position within the circle of idealist philosophers, and was regarded as one of England's leading Hegel scholars. Although a proponent of the German philosopher's dialectical thinking in general, McTaggart was not uncritical of Hegel's philosophy and objected to his application of abstract thought. In this work, McTaggart not only gives the reader a thorough introduction to Hegel's understanding of the dialectic method but also exposes a number of points on which he considers Hegel's teaching to be inaccurate: one of these is Hegel's insistence that evil is merely a delusion

Dialectic · Epistemology · German · German idealism · Hegelianism · Linguistics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory · georg wilhelm friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) · Logic

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