Absolute Knowledge Quotes

“Despite Schelling’s aspirations and claims, he was instrumental not in the completion of metaphysics, but rather in its abandonment.”
― Alan White, Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics

“In claiming to have exhausted the dialectically structured categorial realm, Hegel claims to have completed philosophy. In fact, however, he has completed at best only first philosophy; his system represents at most the highest theoretical knowledge, that which grounds further inquiry. Grounding such inquiry is however quite different from completing it. In complete metaphysics, Hegel provides philosophical anthropology with the point from which it can begin.”
― Alan White, Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics

“. . . the abandonment of metaphysics involves more than the redefinition of the nature of rational inquiry in accordance with the tenets of modern scientific methodology; this redefinition itself makes matters of value and validity mere matters of opinion.”
― Alan White, Absolute Knowledge: Hegel and the Problem of Metaphysics