Hegel

Hugo Falkenheim

pp. 331-360

in: William Richardson, Heidegger, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1963

Abstract

Now we come for the first time properly speaking to the philosophy of the new world and begin with Descartes. With him we enter upon a philosophy that stands on its own feet, a philosophy which knows that it comes independently from reason, and that self-consciousness is an essential moment of the true. Here we can say that we are at home, and, as sailors after a long voyage upon stormy seas, we can cry ‘land’.… In this new period, the [fundamental] principle is thought, thinking that proceeds from itself.…1