Hegel has found a way to bring the vast reaches of the human spirit into unification in a theory.

Never before had human beings been so confident in their knowledge of physical nature, human nature, morality, and politics.

Here we have the most startling and influential significance of the new turn which Kant gave to philosophy. It is the turn away from the external world of independent nature to the inner world of the activity and powers of the mind as the key to what we experience and what we know.

Reality as Totality of Conceptual Truth.

dialectic.

But he had three objections to Kant’s restrictions on the pure concepts.

The Sensory Component.

All this began with the Kantian turn in philosophy, in which the object is always in some degree the creation of the subject.

he wants to build upon Kant and upon the Kantian turn in philosophy, upon the primacy which Kant gave to the pure rational concepts. Hegel wants to keep this primacy which concepts have over sense impressions. But he also wants to build upon the Romantics, and to be able to be expansive, unlimited, like the Romantics and to incorporate their new,