Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Publisher: Livraria Press

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 3989888455

A new translation directly from the original manuscript of Hegel's essay "Solger's Posthumous Writings and Correspondence". This edition contains an extensive afterword on Hegelian philosophy by the translator and a timeline of his life and works. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger was a philosopher focusing on the nature of irony, and is considered to be broadly a part of the Romantic movement. Hegel argues that if knowledge derived from reason cannot gain general consensus and philosophers remain in constant disagreement, this suggests that the pursuit of such knowledge is an unattainable end goal based on a shared deception. He also doubts the abilities of philosophers to achieve such knowledge.