Jindřich Karásek
SUMMARY
The Form of the Sentence and the Unity of the Concept. On the Systematic Context of the Theory of Predication and the Speculative Sentence in the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit
One of the most difficult parts of Hegel’s logic
is his doctrine of the speculative sentence. Its roots can be found
already in the preface to the Phenomenology
of Mind, namely in the passage considered as the most challenging in the
entire preface. The aim of the article is to analyse Hegel’s assertions in the
pertinent systematic context. We affirm that this systematic context is Hegel’s
confrontation with Kant’s transcendental logic. Hegel’s aim is, firstly, to
confirm the Kantian critic of the rationalist metaphysics and, subsequently, to
surmount it in order to put forward a new form of metaphysics. This metaphysics
would be determined by the concept of mind as the identity of substance and
subject and can be formulated only by means of the speculative sentence.