Event overview
InC Seminar: The future: philosophy between utopia and end-time prophecy'
Hammam Aldouri (CREMP, Kingston): 'The ‘End of History’ and the Beginning of Philosophy'
This talk will examine the relationship between the so-called ‘end of history’ thesis in Hegel’s philosophical system and the beginning of the philosophical system as the encapsulation of the formal structure of the result of philosophy itself. The talk will attempt to demonstrate that according to Hegel, the end of history is conceptually corroborated with the end of philosophy. To advance a ‘speculative proposition’, it is argued that the end of philosophy is the end of history. This talk will investigation the nature and limits of the copula by returning to the question of the beginning of the philosophical system, especially when the beginning in Hegelian philosophy at once confirms and violates the end of history thesis; confirms it since the beginning is the end according to the circularity of actuality, and yet the beginning of philosophy is never in truth the beginning but rather a restricted standpoint that can not incorporate the Absolute (the end of history as the end of philosophy). From this the following claim can be advanced: the beginning of philosophy contains within it the embryonic form of the future of philosophical thinking. But this futural dimension of the beginning does not come about through a passive phenomenal knowledge, but rather is constructed by the philosophical consciousness.
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28 Feb 2012 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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