The philosophical knowledge ought to have a harmonious relationship between actuality and experience; thereupon this harmony may preserve the ultimate purpose of science of philosophy, that is the alignment of reason with the self-conscious reason that occurs in actuality.
“[P]hilosophy... must necessarily be in harmony with actuality and experience... final aim of philosophic science to bring about, through the ascertainment of this harmony, a reconciliation of the self-conscious reason with the reason... with actuality” (6/23).
Premises:
1. The components of modern philosophy have been determined from the internal and external world that includes the environment and the spirit and mind of a man (7/25).
a. Attainment of truth of the psychological state began to be the appearance of the world (6/23).
b. Insofar as internal and external world are the state of consciousness (6/23), this world -- actuality also becomes the experience.
2. The main principle of Experience requires one to be in touch with the matter, thus the mind and self-consciousness could accept the fact (7/25).
a. Hence Natural Philosophy or that is to say, empirical sciences are derived from the experiences (7/25).
3. The mind and spirit are the substantial conditions for the existence of philosophy (11/29).
a. Thought is the internal private self, which has an inclination to contradict itself insofar as it usually remains occupied (11/29).
Regarding actuality, I’m wondering how necessary contradictions in thought are in establishing the truth, and if this is part of the system by which universals are attained. The interaction between actuality or immediacy, and experience, which can reside in conscious (8/26), seems to drive thought to contradictions and also to resolve those contradictions. So in this way, I’m confused as to whether the end result is the truth or if the truth is that which is given in immediacy but must nonetheless be reflected upon.
ReplyDeleteThe second premise you have pointed to on how experience requires one to be in touch with the matter might definitely be a point Hegel has related to science but it is certainly as idea we see in our thought that have been organized in a manner where an end is a point or to better say a purpose of reach. This idea has been on throughout history because history serves for a purpose ... Whether it is to understand or relate to other related subjects or ...for example politics in today's wold has been shifting and rising towards democratic governance. Or religions and how it is made to believe for whoever believes in any specific religion or to better say many religious beliefs to reach it's purpose of the end and the Heaven been the purpose of the religious belief and therefore the abiding by it's rules. This is basically what Hegel noted on the teleological view vis a vis the subject matter.
ReplyDeleteAs per your third premise, our thought often leads itself to contradictions. Hegel goes on to explain how the cravings of thought itself makes it persevere to work out the solutions to its own contradictions (11/29). However, he also states that sometimes thought despairs of finding the solution to contradiction, and this despair leads to an uncalled misology. I wonder why some people will choose to try to work through these contradictions while others will perhaps simply ignore it or enter the realm of doublethink.
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