![]() All things have being and Being must be the highest possible abstraction. The first principle of the world, Hegel reasoned, must be Being. It is an immanent progression from one logical determination to another which, it is claimed, does not begin with any hypothetical assumption but rather which, in following self-movement of the concepts, presents the immanent consequences of thought in its progressive unfolding of itself.Here no transitions are determined externally.” The whole that is produced is composed of necessary parts, none of which can be discarded. Hans-Georg Gadamer explained Hegel’s dialectic in his book, Hegel’s Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies, stating: “Hegel felt that the essential methodological rigor was missing in his contemporaries use of dialectic, and, indeed, his own dialectical procedure is entirely peculiar to him. The key concept of Hegel is the “organic,” which has less to do with the natural and more to do with the logical deduction of one thing from another, due to a process that binds all elements together into an organic whole. The categories, then, had to be a single unified whole. It follows that each category must be logically deduced from the other, so that they all relate, with each emerging from the other. Reason is an abstraction, which becomes part of a process, which produces a consequence. Reason, for Hegel is not an ideology, as it was for the Enlightenment philosophers. ![]() Therefore the first cause must be reason and the world is the consequent of reason. For Georg Hegel ( 1770-1831), “cause” was “reason”-what is the reason that this event happened? The “reason” has a “consequence”-because of this, that happened. However useful the categories were in explaining Kant’s theory of human reason, Hegel wanted to find a starting point, a first cause. Within the architectonic model, Kant’s categories were isolated from each other and appeared to impose themselves upon the structure. GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831)
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