Hegel and the return of speculative thinking: opposition to the Philosophies of understanding

Abstract

The present article seeks to inquire about the meaning of Hegel's retaking of speculative thinking, using the Science of Logic (1812) and the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830). Both Kant's critique of Metaphysics and the neglect of the reformulation of Logic are presupposed. It is a critique of the limits of the philosophies of the understanding, which, separating "thought" and "Thing", reduce knowledge to experience, identifying reason as the faculty producing "illusions." Hegel proposes a higher way of thinking logic, which has become the basis of his system, having in its pure idea its content, the development of which is the procedure of philosophical knowing.