Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 27 No. 2, 2012.
Original scientific paper
Hegel’s presentation of Plato’s Philosophy in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Igor Mikecin
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Plato’s Philosophy occupies a special place in Hegel’s history of philosophy. It is a form in which philosophy in its historical development becomes scientific. The scientific character of philosophy is achieved in Plato as the result of the Absolute being perceived as the Idea. Hegel finds the limit of the principle of the Platonic philosophy, i.e. of its determination of the Idea, in the fact that the Idea is not yet completely conceived in its subjectivity. Since the lack of subjectivity is for Hegel characteristic for whole Greek philosophy, it is the task of the philosophical refutation to show what is specific about this lack in Plato. The affirmative dimension of Hegel’s approach to Plato’s philosophy or its productive appropriation is primarily concerned with analysis of the Platonic dialectic, which is contained in the dialogs Sophist and Parmenides. The interpretation of the constitution of the cosmic soul in Timaeus, i. e. the application of the system of the soul on the dialectics of ideas and the neoplatonic perspective of that interpretation should be reconciled with the principle of the treatment of old philosophies, according to which it is not allowed to look for the determinations of the Absolute, which do not belong to the respective philosophy.
Keywords
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Plato; history of philosophy; Idea; subjectivity; dialectics
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19.2.2013.
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