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Agreed—and the role of the understanding

Feb 191 min read

Exactly. The understanding (Verstand) is what freezes moments and treats them as separate. It is necessary—we need determinate thoughts—but when it takes its products as final, we get the appearance of rigid opposition. Reason is the critique of that fixity from within.

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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

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The dialectic and determinate negation/u/averrois· 4 replies

Hegel's concept of determinate negation in the Logic: negation that preserves and elevates rather than merely cancels, and how it drives the movement of the concept.

On the misunderstanding of thesis–antithesis–synthesis/u/averrois· 1 reply
Why the thesis–antithesis–synthesis formula misrepresents Hegel's dialectic and what determinate negation actually does.
Agreed—and the role of the understanding/u/averrois
The understanding fixes; reason grasps the movement. A short follow-up on why the dialectic is not formalism.
Negation and the result/u/averrois
Why determinate negation is productive and how it drives the immanent progression of the Logic.
Relation to Spinoza and Fichte/u/averrois
How Hegel's determinate negation relates to Spinoza's determination-as-negation and Fichte's self-positing.