Thinking is a Thing: Hegel’s use of Examples

Brian Benjamin Hansen

Thinking is a Thing: Hegel’s use of Examples

Brian Benjamin Hansen

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Abstract

What is the act of giving an example? What kind of thinking is done when a concept is exemplified? Are there different ways of using examples? I have for some time been working on these questions, which I think touches the core of what one could call the method of philosophy. Philosophy is about doing conceptual, not empirical, work, but how does philosophy bring its concepts to live? Maybe one of the most prominent ways of doing this is in the process of giving examples. In this paper, I trace the use of examples G.W.F. Hegel’s masterpiece The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Original language	English
Journal	Lamella – Tidsskrift for teoretisk psykoanalyse
Volume	5
Issue number	6
Pages (from-to)	117-130
Number of pages	14
ISSN	2445-8074
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2021

Keywords

research designs, theory and method

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https://tidsskrift.dk/lamella/article/view/127838/174072

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