SELF-CREATING REASON: Mind and History in Hegel’s Philosophy

by Claudiu Baciu

The Hegelian philosophy shows impressively that idealism is more than the idea that reality is “in itself” something “ideal,” “spiritual,” or a “representation” (although all these predicates are true). The very essence of Hegelian absolute idealism means that the contents of the world do not chaotically lie next to each other, but are bound together in a necessary internal order, an order designated by Hegel as a “rational” one. And the necessity of these contents emerges, in a functional way, from the fact that they receive a meaning. For Hegelian absolute idealism, it is not important how things are generated but how they develop as meaningful entities.

40 pages, Paperback

Published August 21, 2022