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Hegel. The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/fs/ch01.htm#:~:text=The%20Need%20of%20Philosophy When the might of union vanishes from the life of men and the antitheses lost their living connection and reciprocity and gain independence, the need of philosophy arises. From this point of view the need is contingent. But with respect to the given dichotomy the need is the necessary attempt to suspend the rigidity opposition between subjectivity and objectivity; to comprehend the achieved existence (das Gewordensein) of the intellectual and real world as a becoming. Its being as a product must be comprehended as a producing. In the infinite activity of becoming and producing, Reason has united what was sundered and it has reduced the absolute dichotomy to a relative one, one that is conditioned by the original identity. When, where and in what forms such self-reproductions of Reason occur as philosophy is contingent. This contingency must be comprehended on the basis of the Absolute positing itself as an objective totality.
willowNov 28, 2024
one of the many reasons i enjoy wittgenstein is that he articulates one elaboration of hegel's dictum: "philosophy arises when life has lost its unity" www.marxists.org/reference/ar...