A Materialidade no Caminho da Efetivação do Espírito na Filosofia de Hegel

Abstract

Hegel’s identification with idealism may not apprehend adequately hisphilosophical thinking if one takes it as a definitive and absolute determination because he isa dialectical thinker or even better speculative. In this sense the moment of materialitycannot be just put aside as a contingency but it is more the opposition through which thespirit fulfills itself. This one cannot be what it is without assuming the materiality as well asthe matter cannot be effective without being overtaken in the spirit. The totality appointedby Hegel in the absolute spirit means precisely to know and to recognize one another in theother and also by the other as itself. The spirit only raises to itself insofar it assumes itsopposition in matter and by being determined it determines itself but this cannot be fulfilledanywhere but in the matter. In the same way the matter cannot be effective without goingbeyond itself or being considered in thought, that is not as well establishing itself. If thespirit and the matter are effective insofar they are in relation with one another then theprimacy of one over the other can only be understood as a result and not as a starting point.In this way the first moment must not be taken as something static but as coming to be.