On the Need for Speculative Philosophy Today

Author(s)
Andrew James Taggart
Keywords
Philosophy; History of Ideas; Political Theory
Speculative Philosophy; Hegel; Reason

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/60847
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http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/268
Abstract
‘On the Need for Speculative Philosophy Today’ takes seriously Hegel’s claims that speculative philosophy begins in diremption and ends in higher-order conceptualization. To make Hegel’s theses more perspicuous, I examine the set of modern life needs—historical, metaphysical, phenomenological, and political—that give rise to speculative philosophy. I then attempt to show that speculative philosophy’s ultimate aim is to provide us with higher-order consolation. In the final section, I mean to draw on the second sense of speculation, conjecturing that rational form of inquiry I have undertaken is a propaedeutic to ‘philosophies of action’: philosophy of life and public philosophy.  
Date
2012-05-03
Type
Peer-reviewed Article
Identifier
oai:ojs.cosmosandhistory.org:article/268
http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/268
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