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Critical Analysis Of Hegelian Idealism And Its Implications For The Individual Human Person
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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
In the light of the foregone (statement of the
problem), one easily discovers the task or aim of the whole work. The
work is an effort to reinstate the concrete existence of the individual
human person which has been swallowed up in abstractions through
absolute idealism. Thus, it is primarily targeted on Hegel who is a
prime absolute idealist, and it is a reaction against the abstraction of
his idealism, which has depersonalized the individual human person.
This would be more effectively done via existentialist emphasis on man
to restore the essence of individual human person. Thus, it is a piece
of evaluative criticism of idealism with Hegel as a reflex point.
SCOPE OF STUDY
Within
the limits of this consideration, the work even though it exposes
idealist tenets, does not claim an absolute and total exposition. Even
at that, it does not expose these tenets to empty idealism of its
content. However, in order not to build on the blues, Hegelian idealism
is chosen as the reflex or focal point of our reflections. Be that as it
may, the work does not claim to expose equally the whole edifice of
Hegelian system, but exposes through critical inquiry and analysis some
aspects of this system as it relates to the individual human person.
Even when the writer toes the existentialist line in his criticism, he
does not claim to exhaust all themes of the existentialist in order to
buttress the deficiencies of Hegelian system.
METHOD OF STUDY
In
line with the purpose of this work, the method employed here is simply
expository. This exposition would be addressed via critical analysis and
evaluative techniques in order to produce a comprehensive corpus that
suits the entire intellectual edifice.
DIVISION OF WORK
The work
is divided into five chapters that are linked to one another with each
succeeding stage being a further elaboration of the preceding one. The
work comprises one theme running through all chapters but in a
developmental manner from the first to the last chapter. Chapter one
delves into idealism that exposes Hegel as an idealist. Chapter two
discusses the idealist predecessors of Hegel as the springboard of
Hegelian idealism. This gives us the impetus for a critical exposition
of the system to be made in chapter three. Having critically exposed
Hegelian idealism, a room was created for the fourth chapter that draws
out the implications of this system for the individual. Lastly, chapter
five aims at practical solutions by evaluating the two sides of the
human person: individuality and collectivity. Consequently, the curtain
is drawn with the writer’s standpoint on the whole quagmire.
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