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| Speculative philosophy: Speculative philosophy, as understood by Hegel, is a mode of thought that seeks to grasp the inner nature of reality as a whole. It does this by examining the concepts and categories that we use to understand the world and showing how they are interconnected. See also Dialectic, Philosophy, Concepts, Categories, Method, Hermeneutics, Understanding, Reality, Wholes._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Speculative Philosophy - Dictionary of Arguments
I 469 Speculation/Gadamer: Following a use of language that can be proven with Hegel, we call the common ground between metaphysical and hermeneutical dialectics the speculative(1). Speculative here means the relationship of mirroring. I 470 The real mystery of reflection is (...) the inconceivability of the image, the floating of pure reproduction. If we now use the word "speculative", as philosophy around 1800 coined it, e.g. calling someone a speculative mind or finding a thought very speculative, the idea of reflection underlies this use of words. Speculative means the opposite of the dogmatism of everyday experience. Speculative is someone who does not immediately abandon him- or herself to the solidity of the phenomena or to what is meant in its fixed determinacy, but knows how to reflect - in Hegel's words: someone who recognizes the by-it-self as a for-me. Speculation instead of predication: (...) a thought is speculative if the relationship expressed in it cannot be thought of as the unambiguous attribution of a determination to a subject, of a property to its given thing, but must be thought of as a mirroring relationship, in which mirroring itself is nothing but the pure appearance of what is mirrored, just as the one is the one of the other and the other the other of the one. >Speculation/Hegel. 1. Cf. for this derivation of the word from speculum Thomas Aquinas, Il, 2, qu 180 art. 3 and the witty illustration of the speculative contrast (with Schelling, Bruno (I, IV, 237): "Think of the object and the image of the object reflected by the mirror.")_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27