Individuum est effabile
- Autor(en)
- Kurt Appel
- Abstrakt
A widespread prejudice in the field of philosophy is that Hegel is not only a thinker of a complete, but also of a totalitarian system. Accusations are brought forward against him that claim that he dissolves the individual for the sake of the reign of the universal. This text, by contrast, tries to demonstrate that Hegel's philosophy pays tribute to the individual in its contingency and finitude. The aim is to show how Hegel’s philosophy constitutes a certain aisthesis of the singular and thus opens up a perspective for the finitude, vulnerability and dignity of the individual. According to the scholastic principle following Aristotle, the individual cannot be vocalised because in trying to do so, we determine the individual as a case of the universal. This text shows that the individual becomes effable in Hegel’s philosophy as he undermines the stucture of judgment from which thought usually proceeds. Furthermore, the text shows how Hegel tries to take up important thoughts and unresolved question in Kant’s philosophy. Kant’s analysis of the sublime leads to the recognition that the self cannot locate itself in the world of nature and is thus confronted with an unavailability of the world. This thought plays an important role in the religious stage in Hegel‘s Phenomenology of Spirit. At this stage, the self can no longer locate itself in its projections and the objects it encounters in the world and thus experiences a decentration. The text aims to show that the experienced unavailability and self‘s release of the object/other leads to a new expression of the individual. This expression is made possible by the sublation of the self’s claims to validity and its visability to a gaze that no longer proceeds from judgments.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik
- Seiten
- 219-243
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 25
- Publikationsdatum
- 10-2016
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 603206 Fundamentaltheologie
- Schlagwörter
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/individuum-est-effabile(d2288665-55ea-497d-b9c9-dab468d036a6).html