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In the Hegelian speculative approach, as we have seen, Spirit in its first appearance as concrete Spirit is that which it has become as the “truth of nature.” Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit thus begins with a “result,” whose meaning and necessity within the total system of philosophical science has been discussed in our introductory chapters. In thus beginning with a result, we start out neither with a notion of mind as a tabula rasa nor as a res cogitans to which stands opposed a res extensa. This is not to say that such problems as the relation of mind and body have been solved before we begin, but that the preconditions of the solution have been made available in the preceding systematic exposition.
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References
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, New York, 1945, p. 735
Heinz Heimsoeth, “Hegels Philosophie der Musik,” Hegel-Studien, bd. 2, 1963, pp. 167 ff.
G. R. G. Mure, Aristotle, New York, 1964, p. 183
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Greene, M. (1972). The Natural Soul. In: Hegel on the Soul. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2828-8_4
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