PHIL-247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Opiate, Young Hegelians
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Still questionable whether even science can provide universal and. Fails to account for first person experience; we come to know ourselves. To discuss scientific knowledge as fully objective or any knowledge as. Fundamental points: 1. rejection of dogmatism, experience as the groundwork for understanding: subject and object as relational; not distinct. To cp"s, we are in relation to the objects of the world self not separate from some truth of the outer world. Related to epistemology and ontology(study of being, what is). likewise with epistemology and ontology purely objective, is absurd. The truth is not something wholly separated from the subject/subjective account. Scientific accounts are still relational comprehensive accounts in relation to what is not us; knowledge of the self is intimately connected with experiences and relations explicit in the end of history. To hegel we can overcome our own finitude by recognizing the end of history.
