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Davidson and KARL ROSENKRANZ Source: The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1868), pp. 55-56 Published by: Penn State University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25665634 . Accessed: 25/06/2013 16:57
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we, for practical purposes, regard things as 15xed?as being, just as having permanent we them as self they are?that regard
in our first stages of reflection, that we abstract from We apply these principles. the concrete the principle have made. object before us, to the abstraction and apply which we
Thus identical, and as not contradictory. it is not in our rational but consciousness,
not be cancelled.
Such
until we enough in and for itself. Then we have Concrete, to leave these abstract principles for prin ciples as concrete as the truth itself. No abstraction "Form holds when we of Eternity."
Speculative cess,?sees thus can comprehend analysis. distinction lest it come with and ena would It does "on
the other hand, the Insight always regards the pro all things in their genesis3 and as well as synthesis not need to keep some hand for seed," fearing, of the world nihilo nihiljit" and Force," of Matter that the phenom he who as "Ex
to the assistance
comprehend is aware
the world
Journal
Pro appears fessor at Wiirzburg, wherein he recommends von of Franz the study of the philosophy Dr. Hoffmann is now the most Baader. distinguished ophy. With of this philos representative great personal sacrifices, with en with genuine perseverance,
and
Permit me, Mr. President, in a few words to state as clearly as possible the grounds of this distinction. 1. I have combat the school of opposition Every in my endeavored, the confusion which has logic, arisen to in
admirable
its apostle, thusiasm, he has made himself and has brought out a complete edition of to the works of his master, which deserves be called has had a work a model. In the above mentioned he to communication to you, Mr. President, to make reference the kindness The Science
oppositio, may become a opposition, but in itself it contradiction, repugnantia, one. is not necessarily It is not a contra
diction when
of mine?
cal Idea?in
of the Logi terms of distinction, for which he places than grateful to him. it in such a rela as to give the
philosophy
I say that the human species is opposed to itself in the difference be tween woman and man, or that the state is opposed to itself in the distinction between
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(a) be destroyed by the diremption, or (b) overcome the diremp tion, and reinstate itself in the harmonious
Nature
unity Union
of opposites: the as, for example, has just done in the reconstruction of its Constitution against the insurrection States. as a phenomenon, or (b) a negative,
to us, find any ground discovers in a diabolic production of it. for believing In a skeptical entitled The investigation, ofNature, (in the first vol Transfiguration have gone into some detail on this subject; a work with the same in 1853, I published of the Ugly, tendency, viz.: The ^Esthetics
&c,
&c.
as (verum index sui etfalsi, Spinoza says) with that of life, that of disease, with that of the beautiful, that of ugliness, with that
that along with the concept of the true, the concept of the false is necessarily given
in the Therefore, concept of the negative, the destructive and the productive direc tions must be It is plain distinguished.
says, Mystical Logic life is a contradiction death; manent hand, itself. found bolical;
of life.
to, the concept On the other living must die. of life to disease is a contradiction All I cannot say All living must be had pro Herr von Baader into the region of the dia he comes to diabolize volcanoes,
come diseased.
of good, that of evil; but it is also plain that the true, life, the beautiful, the good, are the absolute, the positive conditions of the false, disease, spectively. They tive forms of their-existence, accidental. existences, Now, I have endeavored, as well as of contradiction the evil, re ugliness, are theprius of the nega which
are, as
poi such a I reject sons, savage beasts, &c, as much as the doctrine of de doctrine mons, devils, angels, &c, who are supposed to influence us. I consider the world, rational; evils,as which is conscious the good no less making for them. its notwithstanding and I see in the freedom
cold, heat,
rage, hurricanes,
to deduce and to explain of the negative, all the possible forms of the negative as a moment of the evolution of the idea. In connection points, with in the concepts of monstrosity, degradation, approximated to Herr von Baader; the but as regards in which he derives method such forms which he supposes originally from a "Fall" to lie away beyond the origin of the world a hypothetical ?from have spirit-world?I a position assumed of decided opposition. J have always combatted the main doctrine this, I in certain have, of usurpation, of
of itself, the origin of of the evil, without either angels or devils responsible than
You will, perhaps, much respected Mr. find a page for this brief expla President, of the Society of in the Journal nation which I have the honor to be a member. With much Yours, esteem, very faithfully,
KARL ROSENKRANZ.
Konigsberg, 7th Jan., 1868.
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