The concept of determination and the problem of rational self-determination as the ground of knowledge in Hegel

• Grant number: 16/06591-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2017
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Metaphysics
• Principal Investigator: Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle
• Grantee: Lucas Nascimento Machado
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

We shall study in our research the concept of determination, such as this concept is conceived and used by Hegel in order to provide a logical foundation to his conception of the rational self-determination as the ground of our knowledge. We believe that the concept of determination, even if it appears at times to be of secondary importance, is central to the understanding of the project of placing rational self-determination as the ground of our knowledge, a project advocated by Hegel and by the other great proponents of German Idealism before him. Indeed, we hope to show that, to put ration self-determination as the ground of our knowledge, it was key for Hegel to reformulate the concept of determination regarding the way through which it was used and understood by his antedecessors. We hope, thus, to expose how a certain conception of determination is at the core of Hegel's philosophical project. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MACHADO, Lucas Nascimento. The determinant form: determination, form and content in German idealism. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.