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Grazing in the Sunlight: On H. S. Harris's “The Cows in the Dark Night”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

George di Giovanni
George di Giovanni
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McGill University
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I have only two comments to make, both of which will appear incidental at first. Their full relevance to the paper you have just read will become clear at the end, as I hope.

The first refers to Harris's remark that Jacobi, Schleiermacher and Herder “make strange bedfellows”. Actually, they do not. This is one more example, I believe, of Hegel's usual idiosyncratic yet conceptually sound classification of philosophers and philosophies. I am thinking especially of the Jacobi-Herder pair, but I suspect that what I have to say would apply to the third member of the trio as well. We must remember that, at the time of the writing of the Preface to the Phenomenology, the 1815 edition of Jacobi's dialogue David Hume on Faith, which Jacobi himself had overseen, did not exist. It is the edition that we are most likely to have read, because the wonders of photomechanical reproduction have made it easily available. Hegel, however, could only have read the dialogue in its 1787 edition, without the long new Introduction which Jacobi added in 1815 as an introduction to his collected works as well.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , Winter 1987 , pp. 653 - 664
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1987

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28 The connection between Hegel and his Jena colleague Jakob Friedrich Fries, who systematically tried to psychologize Kant's Transcendental Logic and wrote on Reinhold and Jacobi at the same time as Hegel, needs exploring.