Andrew Buchwalter

Necessity as Self-Conditionality: A Response to Habermas’s Claim that Hegel Renews the Tradition of Ancient Necessitarianism

In his Also a History of Philosophy , Jürgen Habermas asserts that Hegel renews the doctrine of ancient necessitarianism. Focused on an ‘insight into necessity’ that seeks to discern and explicate the rationality of existing reality, this doctrine prioritizes theory over practice and expects that individuals subo...