Frederick C. Beiser Quotes About Hegel

• That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Thinking, Fundamentals

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

• Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as a whole, i.e, god. You cannot get more metaphysical than that. I think that Hegel scholars have to admit this basic fact rather than burying their heads in the sand and trying to pretend that Hegel is concerned with conceptual analysis, category theory, normativity or some such contemporary fad.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Thinking, Trying

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

• Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Hegel, Reactions, Importance

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

• The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they struggled by all conceptual means to avoid it.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Philosophy, Mean, Nihilism

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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