Hegel was right : The Myth of the Empirical Sciences

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In Hegel was right the author demonstrates that the tradition of the grand philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel) made the gift of some key theses of crucial importance for the humanity. These theses widely resist the positivism and skepticism attack. The demonstrative key consists in making realize that the key concepts have not empirical meaning, so self consciousness is the only possible origin of concepts. By the way this explains how human beings from different cultures are capable to understand each other. The demonstrative route of all fundamental concepts (including those of the so called «empirical sciences»), are in the «Science of Logic» of Hegel, and in his «History of Philosophy». This book makes the balance. Cover Contents Foreword to the first English edition (Dr. Alberto Montoya Martín del Campo) 9 Foreword to the third Spanish edition (Héctor Villanueva) 11 Chapter I. Science and Literature 15 1. Literature and Caprice 15 2. Science Without Dogmatism 33 Chapter II .Why the Subject? 47 1. Something About Modern Physics 47 2. A Basic Principle 50 3. What Everybody Understands? 52 4. Leaving Terms Undefined? 57 5. Definitions by Decree 60 6. The Prejudice of Abstraction 67 7. Coup d’état against the Subject? 71 8. Meditionism 86 Chapter III. Subject 89 1. Concept 89 2. Self-Determination 94 3. Being 96 4. Substance 98 5. On the Method 101 6. Time 105 7. Intersubjectivity 117 8. Causality 122 9. Natural Law 129 10. Necessary 134 Chapter IV. Infinite and Distinction 139 1. Pseudoinfinite 140 2. Pseudouniversal 145 3. Infinite and Universal 147 4. Imputations 152 5. Distinction 157 6. Individuality 160 7. The Bottom of the Problem 166 8. Philosophy and Faith 172 Chapter V. Logic and Natural Sciences 181 1. Dialectics 181 2. Logic 197 3. Force 201 4. Explanatory Factors 210 5. Probability 222 6. Life 227 7. Conduct 241 Chapter VI .The Man and the State 247 1. Natural Goodness? 248 2. Happiness? 270 3. Ethicity 284 4. State 306 5. Family, Society, State 325 6. Two Issues about Humans 329 Bibliography 341 Hegel’s Works 345 Other 345