[...]... establish the content and authority of the highest norms of reason as a propaedeutic to the subsequent construction of a science of metaphysics on the basis of these norms Though Hegel nowhere develops his objection fully and thoroughly, he expresses the view at several places that Kant’s project of philosophical critique begs the question against the possibility of metaphysics for us; Hegel expresses the. .. its history 4.3 The rights of ordinary consciousness and the need for critique 4.4 Critique as the realization of the science of metaphysics 5 Hegel s Self-transformational Criticism 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Presuppositionless philosophy The problem of the criterion Self-transformational criticism The problem of the ‘we’ Our transformation Hegel s alternative model: critical transformation as self-realization... plays in the transcendental deduction of the categories The principle of apperception articulates the essential role of our epistemic agency in cognition The identification of the essential role of our epistemic agency in cognition enables Kant to solve his main epistemological problem (the problem of the possibility of synthetic, a priori knowledge), but only at the cost of subjectivism, of the relativization... categories and in another way already in his articulation of a new epistemological project of critique Part II then tells the story of Hegel s development of the epistemological project and method of his Phenomenology in response to the objection to Kant’s philosophical criticism elaborated in Part I A major claim of Part II is that Hegel radically changes his orientation to Kant’s project of critique. .. beginning of his commentary on the Phenomenology of Spirit, that ‘all commentators have noted, [that] in some respects the Phenomenology clearly marks a return to the point of view of Kant and Fichte’ (Genesis and Structure of Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit, 5–6) Against the background of this general agreement among commentators, my contribution consists in the particular interpretation I offer of the. .. skepticism: Hegel s difference Against the modern conception of rational cognition Against modern self-certainty The history of skepticism: decline into dogmatism Philosophy counter culture and time 4 The Return to Kantian Critique: Recognizing the Rights of Ordinary Consciousness 4.1 Two conceptions of philosophical critique 4.2 The return to critique and the relation of philosophy to its history 4.3 The. .. articulation of the knowing and acting subject as the author of the highest principles of its epistemic and practical activity With this recognition, Hegel comes to see that modern dualisms and subjectivism cannot be evaded by returning to an ancient model of epistemology that is yet innocent of these Modern subjectivism expresses the discovery in the modern era of the structure (what he sometimes calls the. .. Introduction in which Hegel characterizes what is distinctive about his approach to skeptical challenges in the work, he describes the path of the investigation as a ‘pathway of despair’ (PhG, 22–3/¶ 78) Hegel s Phenomenology consists in a sequence of stages on the journey of the knowing subject that begins at the standpoint of ‘natural’ or ordinary consciousness and ends at the standpoint of philosophy,... knowledge of the absolute The knowing subject reflects on its knowledge and compares its claims to knowledge with its criteria for knowledge claims The conflict between them forces reconception of both Each successive configuration of consciousness, which emerges from the internal criticism of the preceding configuration, is another step in the journey (or, to use another of Hegel s figures: another rung up the. .. allegory of philosophical education in the Republic, the allegory of what he calls the upward journey of the soul to the intelligible realm’, that we naturally resist philosophical education, out of a misplaced sense of self-preservation Hegel presents with his Phenomenology his own version of Plato’s upward journey of the soul to the intelligible realm, a journey requiring, for him as for Plato, a self-transformation . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h1" alt="" HEGEL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE This page intentionally left blank Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique WILLIAM F. BRISTOW CLARENDON. 88 2.6 Critique and suspicion: unmasking the critical philosophy 91 II. HEGEL S TRANSFORMATION OF CRITIQUE Introduction 105 3. The Rejection of Kantian Critique: Philosophy, Skepticism, and the. 164 4. The Return to Kantian Critique: Recognizing the Rights of Ordinary Consciousness 169 4.1 Two conceptions of philosophical critique 170 4.2 The return to critique and the relation of philosophy