Technosphere as the Absolute? Hegel and the end of metaphysics Cover Image

Tehnosfera kao apsolut? Hegel i kraj metafizike
Technosphere as the Absolute? Hegel and the end of metaphysics

Author(s): Žarko Paić
Subject(s): Metaphysics, German Idealism, Ontology, Philosophy of History
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Technosphere; Hegel; the absolute; the end of metaphysics; world history; substance-subject;

Summary/Abstract: In this consideration we start from the premise that to understand Hegel’s notion of the absolute in the environment of the end of metaphysics it should be necessary to explain how the techno-genetic construction of artificial life in the logic of technoscientific research appears as a legitimate moment of mediation between absolute beginning and absolute freedom. Such insight is gained in the traces of historical thought in the attempts of Heidegger and Sutlić when it comes to the systematic explication of Hegel’s metaphysics and its path to the identity of subject-substance in the form of absolute science of what is already called experience in the Phenomenology of Mind as a reflection on human freedom. It goes from the immediate certainty of Being through the mediation of consciousness to the overcoming (Aufhebung) of history as the positivity of the exposition of an idea in world history as the science of the absolute itself.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 105-133
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Croatian