Bruce, it appears a distinction can be made between the metaphysical/modal/pragmatic; when conjoined with realism or actualism. That is, in the quote below, ...
Paul, When Hegel holds that ... I take it we are up against an instance where realism proves to be "merely an apparent realism, which we are entitled to...
Dear Bruce, ... Take for instance this: "In Empiricism lies the great principle that whatever is true must be in the actual world and present to sensation....
Just resending, with added reference, as I forgot to delete the previous posts to avoid being hit for spam; Dear Beat, ... Shouldn't you say Hegel refutes...
Dear Beat, I'm sorry to report that I don't see any of these passages as endorsing realism, meaning ontological realism: "the existence of things outside the ...
Dear Paul, ... Bruce wrote: "It's a puzzle (for me) as to whether any such instances of putative realism qualify as a hard realism of absolute subsistence & ...
Dear Bruce, ... Could you give an example from another philosopher for your 'ontological realism' ? ... My answer refered to your last sentence. Hegel's main...
Dear Group Beat’s citations: "In Empiricism lies the great principle that whatever is true must be in the actual world and present to sensation. This...
How are all the estates fairly represented?; suppose you have one for organic farmers, one for gm farmers, one for fossil fuel and one green fuels, etc., ...
Paul, If you are going to (ab-)use Hegel to apparently rationalize some dream of an 'ancien regime', monarch and all, why add even more insult to one's...
Will, ... of an 'ancien >regime', monarch and all, why add even more insult to one's intelligence by using the >term "nanny state"?? If you are so paranoid of...
... Sorry, I did a great disservice to Keynes; in his 'Treatise on Probability' he echoes Hegel's sentiments about probability in the PhG (but not with his...
Dear Hegel Group Members, INTRODUCTION. The quote below implicitly raises the issue as to whether the "Set of All Sets" and the "Set Of All Objects" exhibit...
Dear John, Of course Thomas believed in some sense or other in angels. That is a pretty open topic (many Muslims identify Mohammed with the Comforter/Advocate...
Dear Beat, ... Shouldn't you say Hegel refutes 'hard realism'?, given he asserts "What is rational, is actual and what is actual, is rational" (EL, Section 6);...
Dear Paul & Beat, I concur that Hegel refutes "hard realism." I.e. claims to. Insofar as Hegel holds to the ultimate truth of idealism, he is essentially...
... Dear Stephen, My sudden interest in Schelling immediately following this little conversation wasn't entirely a coincidence. As you may have noticed,...
... Bruce Merrill wrote: In a secular cosmology: Once upon a time... there was inanimate stuff, and no minds or ideas. Hence, minds with their capacity for...
... This is very interesting. Hegel's dialectics or speculative thinking is the observation of the folding in and folding out of the concept. This process...
Hi Bruce, could you clarify please: when you say "that things subsist and are the way that they are absolutely independent of the nature or existence of ideas...
I sent the following ten hours ago, and haven't seen it come through. This time I'll cut out the material that I was responding to, and see if that helps. ...
I am not a biologist and the following comes from a 3 hour lecture by an experimental biologisst from the Albert Einstein School of Medicinea few years ago. He...
Dear Group, Every once in a while I come across an Hegelian text which is an absolute (excuse the pun) breath of fresh air. I don't know who translated this...
... I am not sure if I have understood your comment well. But one thing is important to keep in mind. Hegel's philosophy is not reductionist. What does emerge...
Dear Beat, Back to the import of consummation. My recollection (alas, I seems to have temporarily misplaced all my primary texts for Hegel!) was that in his...
... Hello Phil, There are a lot of problems with your post. Unfortunately for me (and for people who are interested in "Kant's organon view"), each error in...
Randall, I thought you raised some very interesting points, that might help to clear the difference between Kant and Hegel's thought. I.e., ... So in a...
Dear Bruce, ... This must be a Freudian mistake. I am not an expert in Hegel's philosophy of religion. I guess there are others on this list who can answer...
Dear Beat, OK, I've overcome my Freudian affliction, and found my Hegel texts (except for the Phil of Spirit which hasn't turned up yet-- more Freud?) and I...
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