Hegel’s dialectic and the phenomenology of pulsation Cover Image

Hegelova dijalektika i fenomenologija pulsacije
Hegel’s dialectic and the phenomenology of pulsation

Author(s): Ivo Komšić
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, German Idealism, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of History
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Substance; subject; mind; dialectic; ethical life; motility; religiosity; history; social pulsation; intentionality; intersubjectivity; communication; transferable causality;

Summary/Abstract: By his defining and understanding supstance as a subject, Hegel has made a turn in understanding the truth- truth is neither supposed nor given, truth produces itself, it is the result of its own work. The Hegels’ turn is motivating for consideration nowdays since individuality of the human can be understood only if comprehended as a subject which forms its social being through social activity. Motion from subjective to objective positioning of man, Hegel de¬fined as dialectical motion: self-positing in the otherness. Since reason is the highest attribute for man, the entire objective world - nature and history are only the progress of the reason, its self-positioning and re-discovery in cognition. Everything that exists is only a part of the truth of the reasons’ movement within itself. However, at this point, and that is the highest point of Hegel’s speculative philosophy, the dialectial continuity of consciousness is interrupted. In the context of his system of thought verified by dialectics, Hegel does not consider this interruption real, but only as a temporary objectification of consciousness, as a “negation”. In fact, he doesn’t take into his system what he discovered in his early writings in Bern, Frankfurt and Jena, and that is that all forms of human being are also active; ethical life and religiosity as positive forms of human being are also active and in opposition to his subjectivity. The activity of these objectified forms is not part of the continuity of human consciousness, it is respective. All the states of human being - morality, ethical life, religiosity and history are active, they take upon substantial energy. This feedback activity toward man cannot be explained by the dialectical continuity of consciousness because that continuity is interrupted. This new relationship is pulsation, and not continuity and can be explained via logic of pulsation. It is a new logical form in which there are social phenomena that pulsate with each other and transfer social causality from one to the other.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 33-48
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian