Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics

Winner of the hegelpdâprize 2022 Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence. Hegelâs Foundation Free Metaphysics demonstrates that by reading Hegelâs Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic as a form of Absolute Dialetheism Hegelâs logic of the concept can account for the possibility of absolute existence. Through a close examination of Hegelâs concept of self-referential universality in his Science of Logic Moss demonstrates how Hegelâs concept of singularity is designed to solve a host of metaphysical and epistemic paradoxes central to this problematic. He illustrates how Hegelâs revolutionary account of universality particularity and singularity offers solutions to six problems that have plagued the history of Western philosophy: the problem of nihilism the problem of instantiation the problem of the missing difference the problem of absolute empiricism the problem of onto-theology and the third man regress. Moss shows that Hegelâs affirmation and development of a revised ontological argument for Godâs existence is designed to establish the necessity of absolute existence. By adopting a metaphysical reading of Richard Dien Winfieldâs foundation free epistemology Moss critically engages dominant readings and contemporary debates in Hegel scholarship. Hegelâs Foundation Free Metaphysics will appeal to scholars interested in Hegel German Idealism 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy metaphysics epistemology and contemporary European thought. . Language: English