Stern, R.A. orcid.org/0000-0003-2967-647X (2016) 'Determination is Negation': The Adventures of a Doctrine from Spinoza to Hegel to the British Idealists. Hegel Bulletin, 37. pp. 29-52. ISSN 2051-5367
Abstract
This article is a discussion of Hegel’s conception of the principle ‘omnis determinatio est negatio’, which he attributes to Spinoza. It is argued, however, that Spinoza understood this principle in a very different way from Hegel, which then sets up an interpretative puzzle: if this is so, why did he credit Spinoza with formulating it? This puzzle is resolved by paying attention to the context in which those attributions are made, while it is also shown that the British Idealists (unlike many contemporary commentators) were aware of the complexities in the Spinoza–Hegel relation on this issue. The paper also addresses some of the philosophical debates raised by this question, and the light it sheds on Hegel’s critique of Spinoza as a monist.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Hegel Society of Great Britain. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2016 10:29 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2020 11:01 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2016.2 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/hgl.2016.2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97865 |
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