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The Ultimate Elements of Thought

Author(s): Silvia Krasteva
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Kant; Hegel; theory of thought; the unconditioned; the elements of thought: the abstract universal (general); the particular; the singular and the real universal concepts.

Summary/Abstract: The article problematizes the theoretical results of Kant and Hegel in order to clarify the conception of transcendental thought. The latter is constituted as the ultimate a priori area of the unconditioned (Kant’s term) as a pure universe of thought. The ultimate elements of thought are determined and posited as pure logical elements – „the three determined concepts“, deduced by Hegel. These are the universal (general), the particular and the singular. They are completed with a fourth concept, the real universal, which is taken as the upper border in the quantity of the object (Gegenstand). This concept is specified as an independent sphere of the object upon the unconditioned. The ultimate series of thought is structured through the empty concept and the Absolute concept. The article also discusses the basic relations and operations relevant to the last conceptual elements, which mediate and penetrate the whole universe of thought.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2014
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 30-42
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bulgarian