Overcoming Metaphysics
The talk about "metaphysics of knowledge" remains within the same misunderstanding. In truth, it is a matter of the metaphysics of the object, that is, of beings as object, of the object for a subject.
The mere reverse side of the empirical-positivistic misinterpretation of epistemology shows itself in the growing dominance of logistics.
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The completion of metaphysics begins with Hegel's metaphysics of absolute knowledge as the Spirit of will.
Why is this metaphysics only the beginning of the completion and not the completion itself? Hasn't unconditional certainty come to itself as absolute reality?
Is there still a possibility here of self-transcendence? Probably not. But the possibility of unconditional self-examination as the will of life is still not accomplished. The will has not yet appeared as the will to will in its reality which it has prepared. Hence metaphysics is not yet completed with the absolute metaphysics of the Spirit.
In spite of the superficial talk about the breakdown of Hegelian philosophy, one thing remains true: Only this philosophy determined reality in the nineteenth century, although not in the external form of a doctrine followed, but rather as metaphysics, as the dominance of beingness in the sense of certainty. The counter movements to this metaphysics belong to it. Ever since Hegel's death (1831), everything is merely a countermovement, not only in Germany, but also in Europe.
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It is characteristic for metaphysics that in it existentia is always consistently treated only briefly and as a matter of course, if it is treated at all. (Cf. the inadequate explanation of the postulates of reality in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.)
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