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The Idea (adequate Concept)
?- 0 Hegel's 'System of Science'
- 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
- 2 Nature (science of matter)
- 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
- 11 Being (immediateness, 'Ontology')
- 12 Essence (mediation, reflection, metaphysics)
- 13 Concept (Notion / Logos / Comprehension, 'Begriff')
- 131 The subjective Concept (formal Concept)
- 132 The Object (real Concept)
- 133 The Idea (adequate Concept)
- 1331 Life
- 1332 Finite Cognition
- 1333 Absolute idea (method)
Idea
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The unity of concept and objectivity. Not the Platonic idea (situated beyond), but the unity of thought and being experienced in life and cognition. The idea is the concept that has proven itself in experience. Life, cognition, and the absolute idea are stages of the idea.
Origin: Plato: ideas as eternal archetypes. Kant: ideas as regulative principles. Hegel: idea as the self-realization of the concept.
In Hegel: Enc. §213–215; SL Vol. 2, The Idea
Cross-references: Concept, Objectivity, Life, Absolute Idea, Truth