Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831) German idealist philosopher.
Hegel constructed his philosophical system in the wake of Kant’s critique of metaphysics. He is often seen as a supremely metaphysical thinker who attempted to defend metaphysics against Kant’s assault. But his relationship to traditional metaphysics is complex. He does not straightforwardly accept or straightforwardly reject it; he “sublates” (aufhebt) it, that is at once destroys, preserves and elevates it.
Hegel associates “metaphysics” and the “metaphysical” with thinking and with thoughts or categories, in contrast to sense experience. Thus in one sense “every cultivated consciousness has its metaphysics, its instinctive thinking”, for “metaphysics is nothing but the range of thought determinations, as it were the adamantine net into which we bring all material and thereby make it intelligible” (Hegel,1970, § 246, Addition). …
-This article is about Hegel’ ideas about metaphysics, which was translated into Persian by Sedigheh Bayat.
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