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HEGEL
AND
IDEALISM
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For Hegel, it is the
Absolute or the Spirit
that brings forth mans
knowledge of the truth
of things.

The Spirit is reason
knowing itself if all
throughout reality.
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The human being is not
barred from knowing the
thing-in-itself.




The thing-in-itself, is the
human beings knowledge
of a thing in its abstract
form.
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This truth is
revealed in the unity
of self-consciousness
where the subject
finds itself as a unity
with its object.
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THE TRUTH OF
THE OBJECT IN
SELF-
CONSCIOUSNESS
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The denial of the knowledge
of the thing-in-itself by
Kant is due to the absence
of a reciprocal relationship
between the knower and the
known,
between man and the
object that man seeks to
know.
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Consciousness must
relate to itself in order
to differentiate the
object from what really
is in-itself and what it
appears to be.
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Kant dwells only on
sense-certainty, which
for Hegel is not yet
truth.




Sense-certainty knows
only appearances.
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This being-for-itself
of the object is its
unity with the
knowing self.
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Hegels concept of
truth is not
limited to a mere
knowledge of
appearances.




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The meaning inherent to
an object or its real
nature can be made
available to the human
mind.


Meaning is never
separate from the
object.
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The truth of things
which is realized in self-
consciousness finds its
fullest expression in the
Spirit.


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The spirit in its fullest
realization is the
Absolute.


The Absolute is the
Spirit knowing itself as
the ultimate truth of
things.
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The true nature of
things remains
hidden from the
self of the
knowing subject
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THE END

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