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Hegel despre intelect, rațiune și devenire
Hegel about intellect, reason and evolution

Author(s): Emanuel COPILAȘ
Subject(s): German Idealism, Phenomenology
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: intellect;reason;concept;dialectics;spirit

Summary/Abstract: Hegel’s philosophy is characterized, to a great extent, by the Kantian distinction between intellect and reason. However, Kant’s successor offers new meaning to both intellect and reason and contradicts the Kantian assumption of the intellect being a more reliable source of knowledge than reason. For Hegel, the empirical knowledge provided by the intellect is not enough to know the world as a process; reason is needed in this case, and by reason Hegel understands something much more complex and trustworthy than Kant does. This essay follows Hegel’s acception of intellect and reason and the process of their becoming as two opposed, but not independent sides of the fulfillment of human spirit.

  • Issue Year: III/2015
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 279-295
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian