Hegel and Wittgenstein on God at the Beginning of the World
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.36576/2660-9509.49.89" target="_blank" >10.36576/2660-9509.49.89</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hegel and Wittgenstein on God at the Beginning of the World
Original language description
I argue that Hegel and Wittgenstein, each in their own specific way, used the idea of God at the beginning of creation as a complex analogy for other kinds of beginning, most notably the beginning of philosophical thought. Hegel’s Logic describes God’s mind before the creation of the world, i.e. God’s pure thinking. For a philosopher, beginning afresh means resolving to consider this kind of abstraction from the existence of the world. Wittgenstein, by contrast, says that the idea of a creator of the world does not explain anything. It marks the terminus ad quem of asking for explanations; we must not ask further who created the creator of the world. Wittgenstein generalizes this for any kind of reasoning: “Explanations come to an end somewhere.” (Philosophical Investigations: §1) Any sort of explanation must eventually arrive at its terminus ad quem, which means only that any kind of reasoning must have its logical beginning.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-16680S" target="_blank" >GA19-16680S: Paradigmatic thinking: singularity, universality, self-reference</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Cuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofia
ISSN
0210-4857
e-ISSN
2660-9509
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
ES - SPAIN
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
89-100
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85143216201