商品簡介
When Hegel says that historical development is stimulated and maintained by the human passions, he is placing contingency at the heart of his understanding of the world. Indeed, a careful analysis of his discussion of Actuality shows that contingency is absolutely necessary. From this perspective, one discovers in his Phenomenology of Spirit an extended description of the way confident expectations are confounded by experience.
In Hegel's Systematic Contingency John Burbidge shows how this affects the systematic structure of the Science of Logic and its relation to the Philosophy of Nature (chemistry and biology) and the Philosophy of Spirit (psychology and history). He explores what this understanding of Hegel's thought would involve if applied to some developments of modern science.
作者簡介
John W. Burbidge is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.
