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- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kant’s Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology
- Chapter 3 Kant’s Concept of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Defence of Natural Teleology
- Chapter 5 The Non-truth of Mechanism
- Chapter 6 The Non-truth of External Purposiveness
- Chapter 7 The Truth of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 8 The Immediate Actuality of Purposes
- Chapter 9 The Absolute Realised Purpose
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Kant’s Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2023
- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- True Purposes in Hegel’s Logic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kant’s Antinomies of Freedom and Teleology
- Chapter 3 Kant’s Concept of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Defence of Natural Teleology
- Chapter 5 The Non-truth of Mechanism
- Chapter 6 The Non-truth of External Purposiveness
- Chapter 7 The Truth of Inner Purposiveness
- Chapter 8 The Immediate Actuality of Purposes
- Chapter 9 The Absolute Realised Purpose
- References
- Index
Summary
Hegel dedicates ‘Teleology’ in his Logic to resolve Kant’s antinomies about causality: the third antinomy of reason and the antinomy of judgement. This chapter first connects these distinct Kantian antinomies. I argue that Hegel is right that the opposition of the causal concepts involved in them is substantially the same. I also advocate that Hegel is right too in supposing that for Kant the conflicting concepts remain opposed after the ‘solution’ to the different logical conflicts in the various Critiques is reached. I argue that, in contrast, Hegel’s own resolution tries to deliver a proper unification of these concepts.
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- True Purposes in Hegel's Logic , pp. 19 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023