The notion of notion in Hegel’s Logic
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to deepen the thinking of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and to study one of the central ideas of his philosophy: the speculative notion. The notion and its adequation with itself, that is, the Idea, are the two main concepts of Hegelian metaphysics and the basis for the whole system. The paper traces the historical-philosophical antecedents of the notion in Kant’s unity of apperception and Fichte’s absolute ego. It goes further into the text of the Science of logic and the Encyclopedia to study and offer an interpretation of the notion explained in both works. The paper closes with some reflections on the relationship between notion and freedom by Hegel: the notion is freedom, and freedom is the notion. Here lies the core of the unity between theoretical and practical philosophy.
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