Hegel’s Kantian Logic of Purposiveness: Reframing the Point of Transition from Critical to Absolute Idealism
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Gerad Gentry (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy of Law, Lewis University; Associate to Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
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Literature and Philosophy Workshop
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The University of Chicago
5pm April 11th (Foster 505)
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In this paper, I argue that Hegel adopts Kant’s synthetic, a priori principle of purposiveness from the third Critique as the logical form of reason needed for two key identities: (1) freedom and necessity, and (2) the a priori and a posteriori domains of reason. As the key to these identities, purposiveness thereby provides the Logic with its transition from critical to absolute idealism. I suggest that the method by which these identities are given display how the transition achieved remains consistent with the Kantian discursive limits of reason.
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The paper should be read in advance of the workshop.