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PHIL 367 Lecture : PHIL 367 - Lecture (Feb. 27th)

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10 Mar 2012
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McGill University
Department
Philosophy
Course
PHIL 367
Professor
Susan Judith Hoffmann

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Differenzschrift, phenomenology of spirit, introduction to the lectures on he history of philosophy. For hegel, fichte"s system of philosophy is a mediating system in which reason takes its first speculative steps. Hegel believes fichte is not merely external reflective philosophy, but genuine speculative philosophy. Speculative/genuine philosophy is able to dissolve these opposites and unite them. True thought is reality rather than describing reality. For hegel, difference can be thought of as distinction (reflective phil) or a branching out (divergence, or differenz) within the same basic structure. The advancements in philosophy (and history) are not a difference , but an organic growth (divergence. ) The differenz points back to a trieb that moves one thought to the next, on a common ground, the geist, or spirit. This spirit sustains the dialectic between the two systems. The trieb corresponds to the needs of the time (zeitgeist).

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