Introduction to „Lectures on the Philosophy of Hegel” by Kazimierz Twardowski

Abstract

Academic lectures by Twardowski presented here are devoted to the philosophy of Hegel. They were developed in 1904/1905. The meetings took place on Friday mornings in the old university building. Twardowski did not take the side of the great and lofty sentences of Hegel’s philosophy nor did he submit to the theses proclaimed by his epigones. He did not want to over-duplicate the established stereotypes. In Hegel, he was looking for a way to new solutions in the field of historical research on German idealism. He treated these lectures as a kind of practising philosophy itself. In Hegel, he noticed the important historical lessons about the genesis, development, and character of philosophy. He realized that it was Hegel who had entered the path of historical philosophical thinking. He recovered the old idea of his system and wanted to shed a new light on it through the encyclopaedic prism of historical development.