Hegelian dialectic define4/11/2023 All things have being and Being must be the highest possible abstraction. The first principle of the world, Hegel reasoned, must be Being. It is an immanent progression from one logical determination to another which, it is claimed, does not begin with any hypothetical assumption but rather which, in following self-movement of the concepts, presents the immanent consequences of thought in its progressive unfolding of itself.Here no transitions are determined externally.” The whole that is produced is composed of necessary parts, none of which can be discarded. Hans-Georg Gadamer explained Hegel’s dialectic in his book, Hegel’s Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies, stating: “Hegel felt that the essential methodological rigor was missing in his contemporaries use of dialectic, and, indeed, his own dialectical procedure is entirely peculiar to him. The key concept of Hegel is the “organic,” which has less to do with the natural and more to do with the logical deduction of one thing from another, due to a process that binds all elements together into an organic whole. The categories, then, had to be a single unified whole. It follows that each category must be logically deduced from the other, so that they all relate, with each emerging from the other. Reason is an abstraction, which becomes part of a process, which produces a consequence. Reason, for Hegel is not an ideology, as it was for the Enlightenment philosophers. Therefore the first cause must be reason and the world is the consequent of reason. For Georg Hegel ( 1770-1831), “cause” was “reason”-what is the reason that this event happened? The “reason” has a “consequence”-because of this, that happened. However useful the categories were in explaining Kant’s theory of human reason, Hegel wanted to find a starting point, a first cause. Within the architectonic model, Kant’s categories were isolated from each other and appeared to impose themselves upon the structure. While the consciousness of an individual is not determined by his/her class position but is influenced by idiosyncratic factors that appear as random, those random factors operate within a domain and with probabilities that are constrained and directed by social forces.GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) The error to take the individual as causally prior to the whole and not to appreciate that the social has causal properties within which individual consciousness and action are formed. But it does not follow that where there is choice, subjectivity, and individuality there cannon also be predictability. And indeed it is true that individual behavior and consciousness are the consequences of intersection of a large number of weakly determining factors. Terms such as "the human factor" or "subjective factors" with their implication of chance and unpredictability are invoked as the negation of regularity and lawfulness. Those who despair to point out that people are not machines, that there are subjective processes in the making of decisions, that it is not 'classes' but individuals who make choices. “The interpenetration of chance and determination bears on the problem of how there can be a scientific approach to society when individual human behavior and consciousness seem unpredictable.
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