Browsing: Reality

Bergson redefines philosophical certainty through intuition, duration, internal difference, disciplined experience, becoming, and fidelity to reality’s own movement.

Idealism, materialism, and dialectics intersect across ontology, knowledge, history, mediation, contradiction, and the philosophical relation between thought and reality.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on Hegel’s distinction between actuality and mere existence. The composition relates Hegel to the unity of concept and reality, essence and appearance, inner and outer, necessity and contingency. The owl of Minerva may appear as a symbol of philosophy comprehending a historical form once it has matured.

Hegel’s concept of Wirklichkeit does not mean mere existence, but actuality: the unity of concept and existence, inner and outer, rationality and realized form.