From Substance to Subject Studies in Hegel
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FROM SUBSTANCE TO SUBJECT Studies in Hegel
by NATHAN ROTEN STREICH
MARTINUS NIJHOFF
I THE HAGUE I
1974
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I974 by Martinus Nijhott, The Hague, Netherlands Softcover reprint oflhe hardcover lSI Edition 1974
All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form ISBN-13: 978-90-247-1655-5 001: 10.1007/978-94-010-2077-0
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-0 I 0-2077-0
"Kant is quoted with admiration, that he taught philosophizing not philosophy; as if somebody taught carpentry, hut not to make a table, chair, door, cupboard etc." From: Hegels Aphorismen aus Jenenser Zeit, in: Karl Rosenkranz: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegels Leben, Darmstadt 1963, P·552.
For Paul Weiss "For length of days and years of life and peace, shall they add to thee". "Aboth", ("Fathers"), VI, 7.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Author' s Note
IX
A note on References
XI
Chapter One Chapter Two
CORRELATION AND TOTALITY THE BEGINNING AND THE RESULT
17
Chapter Three!
POTENTIALITY AND ACTUALITY
29
Chapter Four !
NECESSITY AND FREEDOM
38
Chapter Five
THE PROCESS AND THE SYSTEM
56
Chapter Six
THE FIRST AND THE SECOND SYNTHESIS
78
Chapter Seven!
ABSTRACTION AND CONCRETENESS
Index
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106 129
AUTHOR'S NOTE
The present book is concerned with an analysis of Hegel's own rendering of the thrust of his system: The fundamental principle, he says in one of his Aphorisms, of a system of philosophy is its result. The book analyses the various renderings of the shift from the category of substance to totality of subject. These shifts are to exemplify the status of the result as the first principle. To be sure, the analytic interpretation of the texts is accompanied by a critical evaluation of the attempt and its alleged success. The analysis, interpretation and critique presented here are based mainly on Hegel's own texts. To the extent secondary literature is introduced and consulted, the author wishes to express his preference for Hegel's contemporaries and immediate disciples, mainly Johann Eduard Erdmann (1805-1892) and Karl Rosenkranz (1805-1870), and between the two Rosenkranz is given priority. The reason for this preference is not related to the real or alleged fact that the two philosophers were middle-of-the-road Hegelians (and one may doubt whether this applies to Rosenkranz at all) and that the middle-of-the-road position is necessarily sound and level-headed. The reason lies rather in the fact that the two philosophers had a very clear empathy with Hegel's system and attempted to recapitulate Hegel's own reasoning more than overload it with interpretations. They really drank from the same spring. The present-day secondary literature is consulted in so far as it focuses on critical issues like concept and time, though this concentration in turn reflects in some measure issues which are in the forefront of present-day philosophical controversies. This literature is inclined to look at Hegel in retrospect. The author is indebted to Mrs. Rita Saphir-Braun who in her habitual way helped him
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