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• Title:
  Deduction of the Concept of ‘Vitality’ in Hegel’s Philosophy
• Creator:
  Minkov, Ivo
• Description:
  In Hegel’s philosophy, the dialectic of life is based on the expedient course of the concept. This contribution sets itself the task of conducting a hermeneutical and historical-critical reconstruction of the foundation of Hegel’s speculative-dialectical method. The aim is to reveal the philosophical genesis of the concept of ‘vitality’ and its interrelation with spirit. In such a perspective, the idea of the emergence of living matter, which is opposed to the processes of decomposition in the universe, is proposed. The hypothesis here offers a treatment of negative entropy (negentropy) in terms of Hegel’s speculative-dialectical methodology and the spiritual force of the concept that resists the decay of matter. Within such a philosophical conceptualisation arises the concept of vitality, which clarifies the relation between the form of consciousness that a subject can achieve and the energy it will expend to build and structure such a form of consciousness. Of interest is the result that the infinite growth of vitality simultaneously achieves absolute spiritualisation.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Ivo Minkov
• Date:
  2025.07.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  ETHICS IN PROGRESS; Vol. 16 No. 1 (2025); 12-29;
  Ethics in Progress; Tom 16 Nr 1 (2025); 12-29;
  2084-9257
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/48425/39876
• Subject:
  Hegel; Speculative-dialectical Methodology; Self-consciousness; Dialectic of Life; Vitality; Absolute Spirit.
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/48425
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text