Saturday, January 19, 2008

The Diffrence Between Hegel and Kant in Understanding

Kant had distinguished two kinds of logic:

The analytic logic of understanding which focuses the data of sense-experience to yield knowledge of the natural phenomenal world.
The dialectical logic of understanding which operates independently of sense-experience and erroneously professes to give knowledge of the transcendent noumena ("things in themselves" or also the "infinite" or the "whole")

Hegel's view is completely different.

Analytic understanding is only adequate for natural science and practical everyday life, not for philosophy.
Dialectic reason s not concerned with Kant's "transcendent", nor with the abstract "mutilated" parts of reality, but with reality as a totality, and therefore gives true knowledge.

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