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On the identity of the rational and the actual in the philosophies of Kant and Hegel

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TLets384779

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On the identity of the rational and the actual in the philosophies of Kant and Hegel

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Hutchings, Kimberly Jane

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University of Sussex

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1988

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Ph.D.

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University of Sussex

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1988

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This thesis explores Hegel's reading of Kant's critical philosophy anddemonstrates the way in which the philosophies of Kant and Hegel have beentraditionally misread. The thesis focuses in particular on Kant's politicalthought and aims to show how any political philosophy founded on essentiallyKantian presuppositions, presents a dangerous dead end unless and until it isspeculatively re-read in the way that Hegel re-reads Kant's politics in thePhilosophy of Right.In the first two chapters, the nature of Hegel's re-thinking of Kant'scritiques of theoretical and practical reason in the Science of Logic isexpounded, and the nature of the logic of critique and the logic ofspeculation is established. In Chapters Three and Four, the self-defeatingpattern of Kant's political philosophy, unrecognised by contemporarycommentators on Kant, is shown to be speculatively read and re-presented inHegel's Phllosophy of Right, something that goes unappreciated in Marx'scritique of Hegel. In the final chapter, the impossibility of a successfulpolitical philosophy written in terms of critique, and the related impossibilityof a Hegelian political philosophy read in terms of critique, is made clearthrough an examination of the work of Weber, Rawls, Arendt, Habermas andBenhablb. In the Conclusion, the need for a new, speculative politicalphilosophy is argued for. A political philosophy premised on a thinking throughof the self-defeat of critical thought, and a recognition of the identity ofthe rational and the actual in ethical life.

Political philosophy

Hutchings, Kimberly Jane

University of Sussex

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