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. |