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Beyond Hegel's Ontological Claim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Robert van Roden Allen
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University

Extract

Reading Charles Taylor's Hegel, one is quite struck by his view that Hegel's Logic offers us an ontology. To some degree this is an obvious observation in that the Logic certainly pretends to speak regarding “all that is”. Within the optic of Taylor's suggestion, it is possible to explore the primacy of the ontological claim for Hegel's work, the possibility of nihilism consequent upon its collapse, and an access to a post-Hegelian and post-nihilistic future for human thought and activity.

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1984

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References

1 Taylor, Charles, Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975), £226CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Ibid., 227.

4 Ibid., 344.

5 Hegel, G. W. F., Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. Miller, A. V. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 20Google Scholar.

6 Ibid., 35-36.

7 Hegel, G. W. F., Science of Logic, trans. Miller, A. V. (New York: Humanities Press, 1976), 37Google Scholar.

8 Ibid., 577.

9 Ibid., 582.

10 Ibid., 588.

11 Ibid., 756.

13 Ibid., 818, 821.