The System of Philosophy in G.F.W.Hegel
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2011-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The system of philosophy in G.F.W.Hegel is peculiar in its objective and realization. The
objective of system of philosophy is the knowing of truth which is no less than selfrealization
through self-determination. Since truth is a self-thinking idea that is an
intrinsically concrete totality, it is not possible to know truth through the logic of being as
a negation of its other or through reflections of essence (logic of essence).Those logics
are lower forms of knowing truth as they are relative or dependent on some other element
for their determination. But truth must have absolute form since genuine truth is selfsupporting.
Truth is a process that comes to self-knowing through development based on
self-realization (logic of concept). This is possible as truth is idea or adequate concept in
its structure having subjective and objective aspects at the same time that allows it to be
self-knowing. Hence the construction of system doesn’t allow any formalism or intrusion
of external element rather it is a process of self-determining and self-realization. The
implementation of system in the philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit is also a
free self-realization of idea in its otherness as truth becomes totality only through
overcoming one-sidedness or, in other words, through self-concretization. Thus this
thesis will reconstruct the system of philosophy in Hegel using three chapters
emphasizing the anti-foundationalism of philosophy (chapter one), pure construction of
system (chapter two) and implementation and totality of the system (chapter three)
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