Hegel was right : The Myth of the Empirical Sciences

350 Pages·2011·1.892 MB·English

by  Jose Porfirio Miranda de la Parra, Eduardo Charpenel Elorduy

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In Hegel was right the author demonstrates that the tradition of the grand Hegel was right
philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel) made the S 38
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gift of some key theses of crucial importance for the humanity. These theses H
widely resist the positivism and skepticism attack. The demonstrative key The Myth of the Empirical Sciences
consists in making realize that the key concepts have not empirical meaning, A KS 91
so self consciousness is the only possible origin of concepts. By the way this H
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explains how human beings from different cultures are capable to understand
each other. The demonstrative route of all fundamental concepts (including Eduardo Charpenel Elorduy
those of the so called “empirical sciences”), are in the “Science of Logic” of
Hegel, and in his “History of Philosophy”. This book makes the balance.
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Hegel was right
DaeDalus
europäisches Denken in deutscher Philosophie
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José Porfirio Miranda de la Parra
Hegel was right
The Myth of the empirical sciences
Translation by
eduardo Charpenel elorduy
PeTeR laNG
Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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Original title: Hegel tenía Rażón
First Spanish Edition: 1989 (UAM) México
The translation of this book was realized
by Eduardo Charpenel.
ISSN 0938-9547 (Print­Ausgabe)
ISBN 978-3-631-61889-9 E­ISBN 978­3­653­01087­9
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Contents
Foreword to the first English edition
Dr. Alberto Montoya Martín del Campo 9
Foreword to the third Spanish edition
Héctor Villanueva 11
Chapter I. Science and Literature 15
1. Literature and Caprice 15
2. Science Without Dogmatism 33
Chapter II .Why the Subject? 47
1. Something About Modern Physics 47
2. A Basic Principle 50
3. What Everybody Understands? 52
4. Leaving Terms Undefined? 57
5. Definitions by Decree 60
6. The Prejudice of Abstraction 67
7. Coup d’état against the Subject? 71
8. Meditionism 86
Chapter III. Subject 89
1. Concept 89
2. Self-Determination 94
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3. Being 96
4. Substance 98
5. On the Method 101
6. Time 105
7. Intersubjectivity 117
8. Causality 122
9. Natural Law 129
10. Necessary 134
Chapter IV. Infinite and Distinction 139
1. Pseudoinfinite 140
2. Pseudouniversal 145
3. Infinite and Universal 147
4. Imputations 152
5. Distinction 157
6. Individuality 160
7. The Bottom of the Problem 166
8. Philosophy and Faith 172
Chapter V. Logic and Natural Sciences 181
1. Dialectics 181
2. Logic 197
3. Force 201
4. Explanatory Factors 210
5. Probability 222
6. Life 227
7. Conduct 241
Chapter VI .The Man and the State 247
1. Natural Goodness? 248
2. Happiness? 270
3. Ethicity 284
4. State 306
5. Family, Society, State 325
6. Two Issues about Humans 329
Bibliography 341
Hegel’s Works 345
Other 345