Hegel’s Critique of Formalism: Conceptual Nonsequiturs

The fault in conception lies deeper. These ideas, though implicitly possessing the organic unity of mind, stand isolated here and there on the broad ground of conception, with its inward and abstract generality. Thus cut adrift, each is simple, unrelated: Right, Duty, God. Conception in …

Speculative Mathematics: The Triangle

Speculative Mathematics Hegel picks out for his prime example the pythagorean triangle. The complete determination of a general triangle, Hegel explains, requires at least 3 determinations: 1 line and 2 angles, or two lines and 1 angle. When lacking a determination, or having too few, …