Title:
Pursuing the elusive human ethical reality in Hegel's dialetical ontology: a critique of Hegelian dialectic
Author:
Joseph D. Stango
Thesis Advisor:
Diana Schaub
Committee Member:
Rick Boothby
Committee Member:
Michael Franz
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2014
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
While Georg W. F. Hegel was writing his first works, including the Phenomenology of Spirit, he confronted a philosophic discrepancy that was apparent between the ancient and modern writers. Simply put, the ancients pronounced certain transcendental truths and realities that were diminished and altered by the modern writers, who examined human activity radically differently. This fundamental rift suggested that the general philosophic project was not a cohesive whole that revealed true aspects of man; that this philosophic reevaluation and change occurred negated the substantial notion that these determinations held objective truth. When faced with this modern problem, Hegel sought a solution that accounts for the noticeable change between philosophic and historic periods. The philosopher's solution, the Dialectic and World-Historical movement, accounts well for the disparities between various historic epochs. To accomplish this recognition, however, Hegel posited a new anthropology, a new account of the human person. Subsuming all under the Dialectic, Hegel devalued the dignity in personal existence that earlier philosophers, particularly Plato, expounded. Hegel thus provides a conception of human ontology that is an affront to human dignity and human being, for Hegelian dialectic ontology is necessarily a death-rooted ontology.
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts
Level:
Bachelors
Discipline:
Political Science
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Identifier:
StangoJD-14
