Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy

Download or read book Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by Newcomb Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation directly from the original manuscript of Hegel's essay "Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy. Presenting its various modifications and comparing the latest with the old". This edition contains an extensive afterword on Hegelian philosophy by the translator and a timeline of his life and works. This is Hegel's writings against Gottlob Ernst Schulze, an Anti-Kantian Skeptic who spent his life in both admiration and opposition to Kantian philosophy. Mr. Schulze claims to have discovered a "hereditary flaw" in philosophy that makes it impossible to gain speculative knowledge. Mr. Schulze, like Hegel's self-appointed enemy Feuerbach (a favorite of Marx), attempted to question and undermine the entire field of theoretical philosophy through his skepticism. He argues that speculative philosophy is often portrayed as if it were trying to uncover hidden things behind the shadowy outlines of ordinary experience using abstract concepts and notions.