Download PDF Hegel's Idealism : The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness

• Author: Robert B. Pippin
• Published Date: 15 Jun 1989
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Paperback::340 pages
• ISBN10: 0521379237
• File size: 12 Mb
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• Dimension: 160x 231x 23mm::500g
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In the face of the dismissal of absolute idealism as either unintelligible or implausible, Pippin explains and defends an original account of the philosophical basis for Hegel's claims about the historical and social nature of self-consciousness and of knowledge itself. This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Pippin's view is that Hegel's main objective is to establish absolute knowledge as science "overcoming the possibility of skepticism about Absolute Knowledge" 003) and that to do this Hegel invents "a new form of philosophical argument.