Objectivity

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Not the opposite of subjectivity, but the realized form of the concept. The concept externalizes itself into the object. Three stages: mechanism, chemism, teleology.

Origin: Traditionally: objectivity as independence from the subject. In Hegel: objectivity as the self-realization of the concept.

In Hegel: Enz. §194--212; SL Vol. 2, Doctrine of the Concept, Objectivity

Cross-references: Subjectivity, Object, Mechanism, Chemism, Teleology

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