Part of thread: The concrete universal
Abstract vs concrete in the tradition
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Aristotle already distinguished the universal that is in the many from the universal that is said of the many. Hegel radicalises this: the true universal is the one that differentiates itself and remains one in that differentiation. The abstract universal of formal logic is a one-sided product of the understanding.
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
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- The state as concrete universal/u/averrois
The state as the concrete universal in which particularity is preserved and elevated in the Philosophy of Right.
- Abstract vs concrete in the tradition/u/averrois
Aristotle and the tradition: how Hegel's concrete universal relates to earlier notions of the universal.