Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal
Abstract
The article explores the duality of power and powerlessness in Hegel's Subjective Logic, highlighting the tension between the Concept's absolute power and its susceptibility to powerlessness. Hegel portrays the Concept as an infinitely powerful force that unifies diversity through self-related negativity, yet acknowledges that reason can be powerless when fixated on determinate concepts, leading to one-sidedness. This duality suggests that while reason has the capacity for self-correction, it perpetually confronts the challenge of abstraction and determinateness.
Disciplines
Law | Legal History | Philosophy
Recommended Citation
lain Macdonald,
The Concept and its Double: Power and Powerlessness in Hegel's Subjective Logic,
3
Cardozo Pub. L. Pol’y & Ethics J.
95
(2004).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cplpej/vol3/iss1/9