A Dialectical Journey through Fashion and Philosophy by Eun Jung Kang

Author:Eun Jung Kang
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811508141
Publisher: Springer Singapore

It has to be emphasized that Hegel opines that triplicity is “the germ of speculation” (Hegel 1977, pp. 79–80). Some commentators project an ambiguous or fallacious impression that Hegel depreciates triplicity, since he calls Kant’s tripartite method “a lifeless schema” or “a mere shadow.”18 For Hegel, Kant’s major shortcoming is leaving triplicity “lifeless and uncomprehended” (Hegel 2003, p. 28) and being unable to utilize its potency as a means to develop further, beyond the polarization of antinomies. Contrary to some erroneous interpretations, Hegel actually applauds Kant for viewing thinking not as a subject but as a form, which is triplicity (Hegel 1977, pp. 79–80). Although a three-step movement is a basic unit of formal pattern of Hegel’s own dialectical method as well, the form is hardly substantive in Hegel’s system unless coupled with the movement of content. Nevertheless, concerning the general structure of Hegel’s method, as a form with its key elements, it can be said that his method is essentially characterized, first, by the threefold mode of interaction, the beginning of which involves immediacy as start and mediation as consequence,19 and, second, by sublation, through which first two terms of the three-step process pass over into another. Any variation on a triple process, as in musical variations,20 simply indicates the movement and rhythm of the human thought process between consciousness, its knowledge, and its object. As such, it is by no means uncomplicated to trace the kernel of Hegelian logical procedure in thought processes, if one tries to count each step meticulously, because, depending on the object of consciousness, a wide range of variations of all different kinds can be identified. In Hegel’s dialectical thought process, for instance, more than one sublation or a combination of self-sublation and sublation may work together; mediation of itself and/or with itself can be involved; or distinctions of the content of thought even before being determined sometimes sublate each other. A case in point is the exposition of the concept of something by Hegel himself that was discussed earlier, which entails double negations, double sublations, and mediation of itself with itself. Besides, when one attempts to apply Hegel’s method to what it is not ordinarily deemed as anything within the domain of thought process, it becomes even more challenging to untangle the order of critical moments of development in the logical (dialectical) manner, as explained by Hegel. Situated in the predicament, the near impossibility of formulating a Hegelian schematic triad that is inclusive of all variations, I suggest modifying the thesis-antithesis-synthesis—which has long been accepted to be representative of the form of Hegel’s dialectical method by some who take it as none other than Hegelian as well as by others who find no alternative ideas to depict the form of Hegel’s thought process—into the thesis-antithesis-imminent synthesis. Not only because the most critical error in the Fichte’s formula, for Hegel, is the delineation of the third term as (external) synthesis, but also because imminent synthesis is Hegel’s own labeling of the third term (Hegel 2010, pp.

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