Kantian Legacies in German Idealism

I argue that Hegel’s Logic traces an emergent-purposive, logical method that entails two key identities in reason. These identities are (1) between a logic of freedom and necessity, and (2) between the possibilities of a priori and a posteriori reasoning in a purposive method. The purposive method of the Logic is the basis for these identities and, in Hegel’s view, facilitates the transition from Kant’s transcendental idealism to absolute idealism. I suggest that this method is Hegel’s attempt to rework a critique of philosophy according to Kant’s insight about the principle grounding the formal purposiveness of the faculties, what Hegel calls, “one of Kant’s greatest services to philosophy

Epistemology · German · German idealism · Hegelianism · Idealism · Linguistics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · German Idealism · German Philosophy · History & Surveys · Idéalisme allemand · modern · Philosophie allemande · Philosophy

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