Abstract: This chapter explores the relationship Hegel holds to Wolff’s two psychologies. Hegel’s comments on empirical psychology and rational psychology in general and on Christian Wolff’s contributions in particular are rare and dispersed throughout his work, but his thoughts on the objective, substantial, and methodological problems associated with those philosophical sciences can mainly be found in his Science of Logic and in his Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. In the wake of Kant’s critical analysis, classical questions about simplicity, substantiality, immateriality, and immortality, which formerly belonged to psychology, were abolished, together with traditional metaphysics. Hegel focused his attention once again on those subjects. In his eyes, such questions could only arise as problems if the meaning of the underlying concept of the soul presupposed it to be a “thing.” In order to keep his distance from such problems, he introduced into the science of the soul a new comprehension he called the “speculative manner” or “the concept.”
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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