absolute

absolute knowing

G.W.F. Hegel

is alone true just as the true alone is absolute. The statements cannot be grounded. They have stated that which itself provides ground first of all. There speaks in them the will of the absolute whose very nature it is to will to be with us.

The Absolute alone is true. The true alone is absolute. These statements are set down without grounds being offered. No grounds can be offered, because no grounding can reach their ground. It never reaches their ground because, being an effort to offer grounds, it constantly moves away from their ground. The statements are ungrounded, but not arbitrary in the sense of random assertions. The statements cannot be grounded. They have stated that which itself provides ground first of all. There speaks in them the will of the Absolute whose very nature it is to will to be with us. (heidegger 'hegel & experience' ' 38)

is being which is not conditioned by, limited by, or comparable to anything else.

The German absolut is an adjective or adverb, used in much the same ways as the English 'absolute(ly)'. It derives from the Latin absolutus ('loosened, detached, complete'), the past participle of absolvere ('to loosen [from], detach, complete'), and thus means: 'not dependent on, conditional on, relative to or restricted by anything else... self-contained, perfect, complete'. It first occurs as a noun in Nicholas of Cusa, who, in his De docta ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance, 1440), used absolutum to refer to God, as the being which is not conditioned by, limited by or comparable to anything else, and German philosophers after Kant regularly use das Absolute to refer to the ultimate, unconditioned reality. (inwood 1992 : 27)

is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is . . . and that precisely in this consist its nature, viz. To be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.

The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is... and that precisely in this consist its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

is limited to the one fact that everything is relative.

Everything is relative... and only that is absolute. Auguste Comte

is not separate from the world of experience. It runs through it.

For Bergson, the absolute is not separate from the world of experience... it runs through it. Kant's critical project was to delimit the domain of reason, to separate what can be known from what cannot-- the unknowable absolute.

is simply the thing loosed from its conditions.

the absolute is simply the thing loosed from its conditions (hegel)

is the 'identity of all differences'-object and subject, nature and mind, the real order and the ideal.

According to Schelling, the Absolute is the 'identity of all differences'-object and subject, nature and mind, the real order and the ideal... and the knowledge of this identity is obtained by an intellectual intuition which, abstracting from every individual thinker and every possible object of thought, contemplates the absolute reason. Out of this original unity all things evolve in opposite directions: nature as the negative pole, mind or spirit as the positive pole of a vast magnet, the universe. Within this totality each thing, like the particle of a magnet, has its nature or form determined according as it manifests subjectivity or objectivity in greater degree. History is but the gradual self-revelation of the Absolute... when its final period will come to pass we know not... but when it does come, then God will be.

is the absolute ego, and it is concealed by the world, not exhibited within it, except as in an image.

the absolute is the absolute ego, and it is concealed by the world, not exhibited within it, except as in an image

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