Plato's true speculative greatness, that in virtue of which he constitutes an epoch in the history of philosophy and hence in world history generally, lies in the more precise identification of the idea, a recognition which, a few centuries later, was in general to form the basic element in the ferment of world history and a new configuration of the human spirit. Hegel, Lectures on the History ...

Biography Fernando Huesca Ramón has Bachelor studies in Biology and Philosophy from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Master studies in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and is currently finishing a doctorate project with the subject: “Political Economy in Hegel: Capital and ethical life.” His areas of research are Political Economy, Poli...

In an article devoted to the Young Marx, I have already stressed the ambiguity of the idea of ‘inverting Hegel’. It seemed to me that strictly speaking this expression suited Feuerbach perfectly; the latter did, indeed, ‘turn speculative philosophy back on to its feet’, but the only result was to arrive with implacable logic at an idealist anthropology. But the expression cannot be applied to M...

Both Hegel and the later Wittgenstein were concerned with problem of how to begin speculation, or beginning. I argue that despite many differences, there are surprising similarities between their thinking about They both consider different kinds beginnings combine them into complex analogies. The beginning has a subjective an objective moment. philosophizing subject something, object. For Hegel...