Sublime

He refused any limitation on the number of concepts. Second, he refused to limit them to use in sensory experience. And third, Hegel refused to limit the knowledge gained by the categories to the status of mere appearance. He argued that the categories do pertain to reality. It is reality itself which these concepts tell us about.

According to Schelling, transcendental philosophy must begin with the subjective awareness of self, in other words, self-consciousness.

The ‘science’ consists in the ‘laws of historical motion’ set out in Das Kapital and elsewhere, according to which economic development brings about successive changes in the economic infrastructure of society, enabling us to predict that private property will one day disappear.

whereas Hegel understood his philosophical approach as primarily descriptive, Kierkegaard and Marx borrowed an essentially Hegelian conception of selfhood but used it prescriptively. However, as each developed his parallel criticism of Hegel’s idealism, freeing his conception of selfhood from its conservative formulation, what had once been

Emerson affirme lui aussi que le grand homme, c’est l’homme représentatif. Sa grandeur réside dans sa représentativité. Plus l’homme représente son temps, son époque, sa civilisation, sa culture, son continent géographique, historique, culturel, mental, plus il est grand.

In philosophical circles, Rawls’s approach is described as asserting the “priority of the right over the good.” On this view, our rights define a framework within which we can each pursue our beliefs about how to live; in contrast to the alternative, where we start with a particular conception of the good, and design rights in order to promote it.

Hegelian terminology