Hegelianism rezidual” și „hegelianism retoric” în scrierile de tinerețe ale lui Bertrand Russell
“Residual Hegelianism” and “Rhetorical Hegelianism” in Young Bertrand Russell’s Writtings

Summary/Abstract: Russell’s Early Philosophy might be understood not just as a residual Hegelianism but also as an attempt to offer a new version of Kantian transcendentalism. Russell initial plan was to develop a comprehensively Hegelian dialectic of the sciences, beginning with the most abstract and proceed to the more concrete, from mathematics to physics and physiology. But in the Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897) he already departs from the Hegelian dialectic and adopts a logical method of analysis based on a reinterpretation of Kant’s transcendental project. „Tiergarten Programme”, the first stage of Russell’s philosophical career, covering the period between 1895 and 1899, was conceived as two parallel different projects, according to the Hegelian model of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, one on philosophy of science which would begin with the most abstract mathematics and proceed to the more concrete sciences of nature, from to physiology, while the other would proceed in an opposite direction, starting from politics and social questions. The two projects finally merged into a grand Hegelian synthesis of the scientific and the practical. Russell’s initial plan was to develop a comprehensively Hegelian dialectic of the sciences, using the tools of dialectical logic and the metaphysical categories of the Absolute Spirit. Therefore, we could talk about an idealist apprenticeship of the young Russell (Griffin, 1991). In this sense, it is obvious that this first stage is dominated by a Hegelian rhetoric that shapes Russell’s philosophical discourse.

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