Adrian Johnston
speaker
618 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard Jan 2020
Adrian Johnston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
And so for Kant, it's a key assumption in his first critique that if we encounter
deadlocks internal to our thought, if we find that we're confronted with incommensurable propositions about the nature of reality, well, that means that we failed to actually gain access to reality independently of our thinking.
And we're instead stuck boxing with problems that are within the shadow theater of our mental lives as separate from being apart from us.
What Hegel does is that he indicates that Kant, even against his own epistemological strictures, Kant presupposes a picture of being that assumes that, among other things, it doesn't contain any inconsistencies, that it is devoid of conflict or incommensurabilities, that being is fundamentally at one with itself.
It's entirely consistent.
It's a seamless
you know, integrated web.
And Kant claims we can't have any knowledge of how things are in themselves apart from our thinking, yet he presumes a certain minimal characteristic about being in itself.
And Hegel, by problematizing Kant's very manner of attempting to maintain this strict distinction between thinking and being, ends up, you know, to his own satisfaction at least, and I think to Zizek's, demonstrating that no, in fact,
being itself, apart from thinking, also contains these dialectical elements.
And in that sense, then, we could say Hegel indeed ontologizes specifically the dialectics that Kant brings to light in the first critique.
And I think that that description Zizek would still agree with, despite saying, well, if we assume that the being that's at stake in ontology is a theory of being,
is free of contradiction, self-consistent, et cetera, then we shouldn't say that Hegel ontologizes Kant.
Yes.
Well, the point of reference in Hegel's corpus here, the key moment in Hegel's body of work would be the first three chapters that form the first major section of Hegel's 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit.
And those first three chapters starts with
what would seem to be most immediate and straightforwardly given in terms of experience.
So this is a phenomenology.
It starts with experience.
And seemingly, for Hegel, the most elementary, simple, zero-level form of experience is what he calls sense.
Showing 81–100 of 618 · page 5 of 31
← Previous
Next →