PHI 205 Lecture 21: Comparison of Hegel’s Reason in History with DuBois’ Spiritual Strivings
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Comparison of hegel"s reason in history with dubois" spiritual strivings. Of before and after? : kant believed it"s similar to the concept of his arithmetic examples. You have some sort of experience which gives you the framework for time. Time is understood by thinking and reflecting on experiences. You have to construct the idea of temporal passage by reflecting on the form that our experiences have: hegel: There are things in the world that don"t need experiences to be understood i. e. , time. In that case, then there needs to be some sort of reason or rationale for the things that happen throughout the history of time. It is indeed this desire for rational insight, for cognition, and not merely for a collection of various facts, which ought to be presupposed as a subjective aspiration in the study of the sciences.
