
Originally Posted by
Conrad_Jalowski
The Post-Kantian tradition saw the attempt to take the whole Western philosophical tradition and put it within a classificatory scheme. Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic as well as its categorizations of thesis, antithesis and synthesis in regards to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history view the stage of human existence as a progression towards the ultimate synthesis. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel would be inimical or hostile to the concept of metaphysical subjectivism, or the concept of individual reality, lack of an underlying theme of reality and no universality of expression regarding this particular viewpoint. Hegel would more likely fit in to the viewpoint of metaphysical objectivism that there is a true reality although perceptions differ in accordance to individualistic factors. In addition, the concept of solipsism deals with the basis of reality as a mere mental construction of the self thereby the autonomy and determination of other individuals is nonexistant.
From my knowledge on Hegelian thought, the Post-Kantian tradition, etc I believe that Hegel was torn between two factors: adherence to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the adherence to Immanuel Kant; his treatises and discourses are an attempt at fusion of two different philosophical viewpoints. Fichte and Schelling deal with certain patterns of thought that provide a transition point between Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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