Abstract

Beginning with an attempt to remove what he believes are the most common misconceptions about Hegel, e.g., that he is a "transcendent metaphysician," a "subjectivist," and an "a priorist," Findlay goes on to deal with Hegel's concept of Geist and his dialectical method. He argues that Hegel's philosophy does not consist of a body of truths, but rather of an exhaustive and subtle analysis of all possible ways of conceiving experience. Hegel's is, he holds, "one of the most anti-metaphysical of philosophical systems, one that remains most within the pale of ordinary experience, and which accords no place to entities or properties lying beyond that experience, or to facts undiscoverable by ordinary methods of examination".--R. E.