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Perspective and Logical Pluralism in Hegel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2018

Christopher Yeomans
Christopher Yeomans*
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Purdue University, [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper, I consider the role of perspective in Hegel’s metaphysics, and in particular the role that multiple perspectives play within the ultimate structure in Hegel’s metaphysics, which Hegel calls ‘the idea [die Idee]’. My (somewhat anachronistic) way into this topic will be to inquire about Hegel’s stance on what Adrian Moore has called ‘absolute representations’. I argue for the claim that perspective is maintained, even in the absolute idea, which generates the task of understanding the nature of that perspective and its compatibility with absoluteness. I attempt to accomplish this task by asking what a logical perspective could be, and how it might be related to visual perspective. Then I inquire into the relation that perspectives have to each other, i.e., to the system of perspectives. I construe those relations in reciprocal and dynamic terms, so that absoluteness takes the form of a structured round of perspectives rather than a relation to reality ‘once and for all’.

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 40 , Special Issue 1: Science of Logic , April 2019 , pp. 29 - 50
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© The Hegel Society of Great Britain, 2018 

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