(HS/OS) Hegel and the Necessity of Reason (Blockveranstaltung)
Dozent:innen: Dr. Gerad GentryKurzname: HS/OS Hegel
Kurs-Nr.: 05.127.145
Kurstyp: Seminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
Seminarleitung: Prof. Dr. Gerad GENTRY (Lewis University, Chicago; DAAD-Gastdozentur)TERMINE & ORGANISATION
Fr, 8. Oktober 2021, 10-12 | Thematische Einführung, Verteilung der Referate, Logistik
Fr, 12. November 2021, 09:00-18:00 | Seminarsitzungen: Referate und Diskussionen der Texte
Sa, 13. November 2021, 09:00-18:00 | Seminarsitzungen: Referate und Diskussionen der Texte
Fr, 10. Dezember 2021, 10-12 | Vorbereitung auf die Hausarbeit
Inhalt
Metaphysical skepticism and the schism of empiricism and rationalism over the origin of ideas and the nature of knowledge is a defining feature of modern philosophy. Immanuel Kant’s critical idealism marked a defining break from this schism, grounding knowledge in an ideal account of the form of judgments and sensibility. The critical turn showed that objects of experience conform to the a priori forms of the understanding. In this context, and with an eye toward the Agrippan Trilemma and Aristotle’s soul as a principle of life, Hegel introduced a modified form of idealism that sought to ground experience and knowledge in the internal necessity of thought without appeal to independent a priori principles. Striving to retain a presuppositionless method, this account of the internal necessity of thought develops a logical method structuring itself entirely from within. Unlike the metaphysical efforts of rationalist like Descartes, this was a formal method taking nothing in sensibility or logic as a permissible presuppositions, attending instead to the inner necessity of thought itself. Hegel takes this purposive necessity of reason to deny the validity of an absolute separation between reason and the actual world.Beginning with the method of the Logic, this seminar will trace the self-emergence of this purposive method through key moments such as the logic of actuality, absolute relation, mechanism, chemism, and purposiveness, before arriving at the "Idea" as the resultant whole of the logical method. Toward the end, we will touch on stages of Hegel’s account of the purposive necessity of reason in the organic process of nature as well as in the philosophy of spirit. In the latter, we will briefly consider key moments of purposive, inner necessity in his conception of the actual soul, habit, virtue, freedom, and reason in history. Our focus will be to trace a strict account of this purposive necessity through close readings, asking: what is it? how is it established? how can it develop from the domains of the logic to the actual world? how does it result in freedom? and what is its final form in his conception of "philosophy"?
Termine
| Datum (Wochentag) | Zeit | Ort |
|---|---|---|
| 08.10.2021 (Freitag) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 03 153 1331 - Verfügungsbau SB II |
| 12.11.2021 (Freitag) | 09:00 - 18:00 | 03 436 1331 - Verfügungsbau SB II |
| 13.11.2021 (Samstag) | 09:00 - 18:00 | 02 415 P201 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 10.12.2021 (Freitag) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 03 436 1331 - Verfügungsbau SB II |