The Idea Quotes

“The striving of the subjective Concept to posit itself externally, which Hegel now calls the subjective purpose, signals the shift from considering the forms of judgment to considering the objectivity of judgment, an objectivity that can be posited and determined only in relation to a judging subject, Judgment is objective, then, on account of two factors: first, judgment is objective in relation to the self-constituting activity of a judging subject who realizes itself by means of an objective universal or essential Gattung-predicate, where the power of that predicate is reflected in the subject's relation-to-self; second, judgment is objective on account of the relationship between a judging subject and an external objectivity that it determines 'absolutely' - that is, an external objectivity that it determines according to its own internally purposive activity and form. These two features of objective judgment, and the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity that they represent, are the main topics of discussion in the final section of the Logic on the 'Idea.' The identification of internal purposiveness with the standard of truth and the form of objective judgment is thus the culmination of Hegel's argument that purposiveness serves a positive function for philosophy in contrast to the negative function of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.”
― Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic

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― Melinda Braun, Stranded