Review article

https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37311

Aspects of Relation between Theoretical and Practical: Hegel and Kangrga

Stijepo Letunić orcid.org/0000-0003-1284-1758 ; Sveučilište u Dubrovniku, Branitelja Dubrovnika 29, HR–20000 Dubrovnik

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to present the aspects of the problem of theoretical and practical in the philosophy of Hegel and Kangrga. The presentation is focused primarily on Hegel, but also on practical action of individual (individuality and subjectivity) from the standpoint of universality, which is fundamental for Hegel’s thought. For Hegel, reality is logic. Path to Hegel is thus shorter via Spinoza, than any other philosopher. However, Spinoza’s pantheism remains in the field of theoretical, that is, it has no subjectivity. The level of mind is reached via self­consciousness. This cancels otherness. In his work, Hegel primarily relied on ethical­practical thought in Kant and Fichte. Kangrga’s partical critique of Hegel, because of the identification of speculation with dialectics, mostly refers to Fichte’s disposition regarding the spontaneous identity of subject and object. Thus, according to Kangrga, after Fichte, mind is by its essence practical.

Keywords

theoretical; practical; self­consciousness; mind; universality; subjectivity; speculation; negativity; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Milan Kangrga

Hrčak ID:

196322

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/196322

Publication date:

23.11.2017.

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