A interpretação de Descartes nas Lições sobre a história da filosofia de Hegel
Abstract
According to Hegel the Modern philosophy begins with Descartes. In this sense, we
proposed to investigate what are the consequences of such a statement in the Hegelian
conception of History of Philosophy. The relevance of this issue is the meaning of the
discipline History of Philosophy as it be understand by Hegel. The History of Philosophy
is the exhibition’s of philosophy itself and the means for their intelligibility. The systems
that arise in the way of History of Philosophy are the particular settings of a unique and
overall Philosophy. The latest philosophies contain the above philosophies as one-sided or
principles of your system. The philosophical progression advances of more abstract
concepts to more concrete concepts. Therefore what is the revolution promoted by
Cartesian thought, what this philosopher could start a new figure in the overall
configuration of Philosophy? For the role of Descartes can be clarified, we studied the
works Principles of the Philosophy, Metaphysical Meditations, and Discourse on Method
of Descartes, as well as the chapter on Descartes in Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der
Philosophie, the Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, and the
Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences of Hegel. From the progression of Hegelian
exposition, we analyzed as Hegel understands the Cartesian doubt, the formulation of the
cogito, the idea of God and the divine veracity, primordial determinations of thought of
Descartes, Hegel as highlighted by its principles, supporting our argumentation in
considerations of Andrews, Bourgeois, Lebrun and Weiss. Recognizing the value of
Descartes consists in the formulation of the unity of being and thinking, even if naively,
Hegel says that such a notion is the most interesting of Modern Philosophy, because it
identifies the moment of understanding metaphysics, abstract understanding, the first way
of thinking, which precedes the time of dialectical thinking and speculative thought. If the
History of Philosophy is the development and intelligibility own philosophy, we decided to
put in relief, separately in Appendix, the Hegelian conceptions in the teaching of
philosophy, both in the Secondary Education, responsible for the education of young
people, as the University.