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Speculative philosophy

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  1. This is certainly an attempt towards a development of the Idea of speculative philosophy in itself, _i.e._ in Notions; but the attempt does not seem to have gone further than this simple enumeration. It is very important that at first only a collection of general thought-determinations should be made, as was done by Aristotle; but what we here see with the Pythagoreans is only a rude beginning of the further…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy

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  2. The moral law, which itself does not require a justification, proves not merely the possibility of freedom, but that it really belongs to beings who recognize this law as binding on themselves. The moral law is in fact a law of the causality of free agents and, therefore, of the possibility of a supersensible system of nature, just as the metaphysical law of events in the world of sense was a law of causality of the…

    Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason

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  3. But the fact is that the half-truth, instead of being a fixed or self-subsistent principle, is a mere element absolved and included in the whole. The metaphysic of understanding is dogmatic, because it maintains half-truths in their isolation: whereas the idealism of speculative philosophy carries out the principle of totality and shows that it can reach beyond the inadequate formularies of abstract thought. Thus…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel

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