PHIL 375 Chapter Notes -Formal System
22 Dec 2012
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Kierkegaard was a declaration of independence, not only from the reigning. Hegelianism of s. k. " s time and locality, but also from the whole tradition of rationalistic, "systematic" thought. Hegel, he maintained, was essentially a comic figure. All this time we have been looking for truth in the object of apprehension the. "what" of thought; suppose now that we look for it in the "how," i. e. in the subject"s relationship to what he thinks. With this ethical, personal kind of truth in mind, kierkegaard boldly proclaims his thesis: truth is subjectivity. System and finality are pretty much one and the same. Such a system must be void of anything that is. Hence, hegel"s introduction of movement into logic, is a sheer confusion of logical science. Surely it is strange to make movement fundamental in a sphere where movement is unthinkable nothing must then be incorporated in a logical system that has any relation to existence.
