Different Perspectives on Hegel-Mendelssohn-Relationship

Kiss, Endre (2023) Different Perspectives on Hegel-Mendelssohn-Relationship. KALEIDOSCOPE: MŰVELŐDÉS- TUDOMÁNY- ÉS ORVOSTÖRTÉNETI FOLYÓIRAT, 13 (27). pp. 291-297. ISSN 2062-2597

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Abstract

In paragraph 157, Hegel describes in the Encyclopaedia the volume of the necessity, which represents a still inner and hidden identity which is öf those" that are considered as "real", the "self-sufficiency" of which should just be the necessity. While later Hegel describes the mutually independent realities (to repel something from themselves), he is (consciously or unconsciously) placed in a similar situation, in which Moses Mendelssohn comes in his essay written in 1763 for the Royal Academy of Sciences, while he is striving to build a rational metaphysics, a fully realized rational systematics. It is noteworthy, that in Mendelssohn's argumentation, the mathematical (geometrical and arithmetic) necessity (including the theological) can be on the way to cross over to the real. Mendelssohn's argument differs from Hegel's conception in important elements (amongst others, the language, linguistic usage, and the differences of conceptualities produced in the individual spheres, not to mention the relevance of the mathematical sphere). Still, the anti-empirical baseline can easily be brought in parallel with the same of Hegel. In his alleged strategical anti-Kantianism, Hegel might have found relevant help in many places in Mendelssohn.

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