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Регресът на философското начало и Хегеловият кръг
The Regression of Philosophical Beginning and the Hegelian Circle

Author(s): Lydia Kondova
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Epistemology, 19th Century Philosophy, German Idealism
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: history of philosophy; Hegel; Reinhold; Fichte; post-Kantian idealism; circular reasoning; foundationalism; coherentism; reason; beginning; end; scepticism; causality; reciprocity

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to present Hegel’s specific solution to the problem of beginning’s regression in the perspective of the crucial historical-philosophical inquiries of late 18th and early 19th centuries’ post-Kantian idealism. This historical background gives the opportunity to enrich the Hegelian doctrine of the circular philosophical system with the thesis of causality’s sublation in the reciprocal interdependence of developmental moments. The mutual justification of the starting point and the result, as well as of every grade in-between, provides a positive resolution of the epistemological skepticism, namely, by introducing it as an integral part of the dialectical progress-regression.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2022
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 154-162
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian