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- Title: Would Hegel be a 'Hegelian' Today?(Georg Hegel)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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If we can have a conference on the announced theme 'Hegel Today', it would seem that many of us must think that there is something still alive and relevant to our situation in Hegel's thought. Yet this does not entail that any of us must think that his basic project was valid. It is demonstrated easily, in fact, that some of the most intelligent and dedicated contemporary students of Hegel's work have concluded that his philosophical project was a dialectical illusion generated by his historic situation; and that he would never have believed that what he set out to do was achievable, if he had been faced in his maturity with the world that we face. Thus Emil Fackenheim concluded in the 1960s that 'such are the crises which have befallen the Christian West in the last half-century that it may safely be said that, were he alive today, so realistic a philosopher as Hegel would not be a Hegelian'; (2) and Charles Taylor concluded ten years later that 'his actual synthesis is quite dead. That is, no one actually believes his central ontological thesis, that the Universe is posited by a Spirit whose essence is rational Necessity'. (3) Others have arrived at a similar verdict for their own reasons, including our Vice President [Merold Westphal]. (4) But at this first conference in Canada I shall concentrate attention--honoris causa--upon these two Canadians.
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