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    Hegel's conception of real thinking departs from the Cart... — Carmelics
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    Hegel's conception of real thinking departs from the Cartesian cogito.

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    • 1.The Cartesian 'I think' conceives thinking as an activity of a subject (the 'I').
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    • 2.For Hegel, real thinking is not an activity of a human or non-human subject but an autochthonous activity.
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    • 3.Hegel's thinking gives rise to conceptions of both subject and object rather than presupposing a subject.
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    • 1.Descartes' cogito is not merely a claim about a pre-given subjective substance but a performative act whose certainty is self-constituting in the moment of doubt.
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    • 2.Hegel's 'autochthonous' thinking similarly requires a self-positing structure that mirrors, rather than escapes, the reflexive self-grounding logic of the Cartesian cogito.
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    • 3.Dieter Henrich's work on self-consciousness shows that both Descartes and Hegel confront the same foundational problem of reflexive self-relation, making their departures a matter of degree, not kind.
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    • 1.Hegel explicitly engages Descartes as a necessary historical precursor in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, treating the cogito as the first genuine expression of spirit's self-knowledge.
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    • 2.If Hegel's thinking 'gives rise' to the subject rather than presupposing it, this genetic account still requires the subject-object distinction as its output, preserving the Cartesian framework's basic conceptual architecture.
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    • 3.Robert Pippin's reconstruction of Hegel's idealism in 'Hegel's Idealism' (1989) argues that Hegel's project is a radicalization of Kantian-Cartesian apperception, not its abandonment.
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    From this argument as to the sole reality of thinking, it is easy to derive a new conception of idealism that is not subject to the objections mentioned above that Hegel raised against the in his eyes one-sided attempts by his fellow post-Kantians, in particular of Fichte and Schelling. If all there is is thinking and if thinking is taken to be not only/primarily an activity of a (human) subject or something that can be present to the senses, but is conceived of as self-standing discursive/conce
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