Hegel Vs Kant
Lanz Romulo N. Deiparine ENGLCOM A56 24-02-12
Compare and Contrast Essay on Spirit as the Philosophical State of Mind
(Hegel's Spirit/Mind and Philosophies VS. Kant's Reason/Soul and Philosophies)
I. Introduction
II. Argument 1: Divisions and Facilities A.) Divisions of Spirit B.) Faculties of Soul
III. Argument 2: Idealism A.) Hegelian Absolute Idealism B.) Kantian Transcendental Idealism
IV. Argument three: The Dialectic A.) Hegelian Theory of Dialectics B.) Kantian Transcendental Dialectics
V. Conclusion
Spirit in Philosophy is regarded as another word for the Mind or the Mental Consciousness of human beings. The most renowned philosophies regarding Spirit is by Georg Hegel and his works; his …show more content…
Essentially, it is any philosophy which argues that the only thing actually knowable is consciousness (or the contents of consciousness), whereas we never can be sure that matter or anything in the outside world really exists. Thus, the only real things are mental entities, not physical things (which exist only in the sense that they are perceived). Hegel formulated an Idealism he called Absolute Idealism which was to state that only by which there is an identity of though and being can human reason know something. He also “continued” Kant’s concept of “thing in itself” in a way that he managed to conceptualized Geist or the Human mind or Spirit and the Zeitgeist (spirit of the ages) which was when the human mind progresses throughout time and changes like trends; he also stated that only by an interaction of opposites can we desire to progress and achieve understanding, for both the Geist and Zeitgeist, and the view of the being as being more dynamic to give more diversity on the concepts we use to understand the world we live in. Kant, on the other hand, formulated an Idealism that would contain concepts that helped remake a new concept for Hegel to use, he formulated the Transcendental Idealism. He focuses on how things would appear to us and how that becomes our experience; a focus in which he constructed to see not just an objective world of representations and experiences made but a reality that is beyond what human reason can comprehend: the noumenon or “the thing in itself”, a concept he uses to ironically be our ground for human representation even though it cannot independently exist (Philosophy Basics,
Compare and Contrast Essay on Spirit as the Philosophical State of Mind
(Hegel's Spirit/Mind and Philosophies VS. Kant's Reason/Soul and Philosophies)
I. Introduction
II. Argument 1: Divisions and Facilities A.) Divisions of Spirit B.) Faculties of Soul
III. Argument 2: Idealism A.) Hegelian Absolute Idealism B.) Kantian Transcendental Idealism
IV. Argument three: The Dialectic A.) Hegelian Theory of Dialectics B.) Kantian Transcendental Dialectics
V. Conclusion
Spirit in Philosophy is regarded as another word for the Mind or the Mental Consciousness of human beings. The most renowned philosophies regarding Spirit is by Georg Hegel and his works; his …show more content…
Essentially, it is any philosophy which argues that the only thing actually knowable is consciousness (or the contents of consciousness), whereas we never can be sure that matter or anything in the outside world really exists. Thus, the only real things are mental entities, not physical things (which exist only in the sense that they are perceived). Hegel formulated an Idealism he called Absolute Idealism which was to state that only by which there is an identity of though and being can human reason know something. He also “continued” Kant’s concept of “thing in itself” in a way that he managed to conceptualized Geist or the Human mind or Spirit and the Zeitgeist (spirit of the ages) which was when the human mind progresses throughout time and changes like trends; he also stated that only by an interaction of opposites can we desire to progress and achieve understanding, for both the Geist and Zeitgeist, and the view of the being as being more dynamic to give more diversity on the concepts we use to understand the world we live in. Kant, on the other hand, formulated an Idealism that would contain concepts that helped remake a new concept for Hegel to use, he formulated the Transcendental Idealism. He focuses on how things would appear to us and how that becomes our experience; a focus in which he constructed to see not just an objective world of representations and experiences made but a reality that is beyond what human reason can comprehend: the noumenon or “the thing in itself”, a concept he uses to ironically be our ground for human representation even though it cannot independently exist (Philosophy Basics,