Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics : The Logic of Singularity

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Winner of the hegelpdprize 2022 Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence. Hegels Foundation Free Metaphysics demonstrates that by reading Hegels Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic as a form of Absolute Dialetheism, Hegels logic of the concept can account for the possibility of absolute existence. Through a close examination of Hegels concept of self-referential universality in his Science of Logic, Moss demonstrates how Hegels concept of singularity is designed to solve a host of metaphysical and epistemic paradoxes central to this problematic. He illustrates how Hegels revolutionary account of universality, particularity, and singularity offers solutions to six problems that have plagued the history of Western philosophy: the problem of nihilism, the problem of instantiation, the problem of the missing difference, the problem of absolute empiricism, the problem of onto-theology, and the third man regress. Moss shows that Hegels affirmation and development of a revised ontological argument for Gods existence is designed to establish the necessity of absolute existence. By adopting a metaphysical reading of Richard Dien Winfields foundation free epistemology, Moss critically engages dominant readings and contemporary debates in Hegel scholarship. Hegels Foundation Free Metaphysics will appeal to scholars interested in Hegel, German Idealism, 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary European thought.