INTERNATIONAL 8th USBİLİM EDUCATION, ECONOMY, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CONGRESS
ACTUALITY AND REALITY ON HEGEL
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Hegel, who tried to establish an absolute philosophical system, also responded to the claims that were efficient in his period in order to strengthen his system. He especially addressed the claims that would threaten his own philosophy. In the period when Hegel was active, Kant's thoughts were the subject of widespread debate. Anyone who is related with philosophy had to refer to Kant, either positively or negatively. In this respect, Hegel had to take into account all kinds of claims that might call into question his absolute idealism. One such argument is based on the relation between actuality (die wirklichkeit) and reality (die realitat). According to Hegel, we often think of actuality and ideas (or ides) in opposition to each other. Kant holds a similar view. Thus, it can be argued that there are two different realities. Hegel, who developed a dialectical method of thinking, opposes this. According to him, as in the Kantian view, imaginational (conceptual) thinking about subjective abstractions made from objective reality leads to an illusion. This is because it considers the subjective and singular as the ground of objective reality. Hegel, on the other hand, links thinking to objective reality. Accordingly, thinking is always (in a way that would not be possible otherwise) considered as thinking the concrete. Thinking in the concrete refers directly to objective reality. Hegel put the new kind of actuality (which he improved by himself) in thinking in order to overcome the Kantian way of thinking, which he calls subjective and singular. Thus, he unifies reality. According to him this type of thinking that enables to do it is speculative thinking. Hegel thus shows that the concepts of actuality and reality can be thought in a different way. He goes beyond Kant's thought and tries to incorporate the actuality into thought and the abstract into actual reality. This study shows how Hegel criticises the Kantian understanding through actuality and reality. In doing so, he explains the characteristics of Hegel's absolute idealist system. He draws attention to the place of the concepts of reality and actuality in Hegel's philosophy.
