This week we’ll start our discussion of Hegel with two readings. The first is from Hegel’s 1802 essay on skepticism. The second is the introduction to his 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit. In these texts Hegel criticizes various modes of skepticism and offers a sketch of a defense of “speculative philosophy” as a metaphysics of the absolute.
Readings
- Hegel:
- On the Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy (in Between Kant and Hegel pp. 311-62)
- Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit
- Notes: Hegel on Skepticism (PDF)
- Grads (pick one)
- Pippin, “Skepticism, Knowledge, and Truth in the Jena Phenomenology” (from Hegel’s Idealism)
- Moyer, “Thought and Metaphysics: Hegel’s Critical Reception of Spinoza”
- Forster, “Hegel’s Epistemology?” (from Hegel and Skepticism)