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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38103

Being – Space – Soul. Hegel’s Thematization of Space as Abstract Universality

Mina Đikanović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-0582-3922 ; Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet, Dr Zorana Đinđića 2, RS–21100 Novi Sad


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Abstract

Hellenic philosophers were not familiar with the phenomenon of space as an abstraction, but only of place as a completely occupied space. Newton’s thematization and Modern philosophy had for the very first time allowed the abstract determination of space and time. In Kant’s philosophy, self­evident objectivity of Newtonian space is transformed into a priori subjectivity of space as pure form of intuition. For Hegel, space is a pure abstraction, the very first determination of nature. The author examines Hegel’s understanding of space in analogy to being as the first moment of science of logic and soul as the first moment of philosophy of spirit. Being, space and soul designate first abstractions which – by the paradigm of pure necessity – contain the whole categoriality of freedom. Philosophy of nature begins with concept of space and ends in process of the genus, discovering the freedom as its very substrate. That allows for pure abstractness of space as res extensa to develop into concreteness of res cogitans.

Keywords

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; spirit; space; being; soul; abstractness; concreteness

Hrčak ID:

204787

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/204787

Publication date:

2.4.2018.

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