Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

366 Pages·1997·19.24 MB·English

by  Michael Baur

HEGEL AND THE TRADITION:
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF H.S. HARRIS

Hegel and
the Tradition:
Essays in Honour of
H.S. Harris
EDITED BY MICHAEL BAUR AND
JOHN RUSSON
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Hegel and the tradition : essays in honour of H.S. Harris
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8020-0927-1
1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. I. Harris,
H.S. (Henry Silton), 1926- . II. Baur, Michael,
1963- . III. Russon, John Edward, 1960- .
B2948.H431997 193 C97-931225-6
Frontispiece: Photo of H.S. Harris courtesy of Diego Nigro
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing
program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword: Hume, Hegel, and Harris ix
JOHN W. BURBIDGE
Introduction: Hegel and Tradition 3
JOHN RUSSON
Part One: Philosophy of Right
1 Philosophical History and the Roman Empire 17
PATRICIA PAGAN
2 Locke, Fichte, and Hegel on the Right to Property 40
JAY LAMPERT
Part Two: Art
3 Hegel and Hamann: Ideas and Life 77
JOHN McCUMBER
4 Winckelmann and Hegel on the Imitation of the Greeks 93
MICHAEL BAUR
5 Hegel as Philosopher of the Temporal [irdischen] World:
On the Dialectics of Narrative 111
MARTIN DONOUGHO
vi Contents
Part Three: Religion
6 The Identity of the Human and the Divine in the Logic of Speculative
Philosophy 143
JEFF MITSCHERLING
7 The Final Name of God 162
DAVID KOLB
8 Hegel's Open Future 176
JOHN W. BURBIDGE
9 Hegel's Encounter with the Christian Tradition, or How Theological Are
Hegel's Early Theological Writings? 190
NICHOLAS WALKER
10 'Wie aus der Pistole': Fries and Hegel on Faith and Knowledge 212
GEORGE DI GIOVANNI
Part Four: Philosophy
11 Der Unterschied zwischen 'Differenz' und 'Unterschied': A Re-evaluation of
Hegel's Differenzschrift 245
SUSAN-JUDITH HOFFMANN
12 Dialectic as Counterpoint: On Philosophical Self-Measure in Plato and
Hegel 264
JAMES CROOKS
13 Hegel's 'Freedom of Self-Consciousness' and Early Modern
Epistemology 286
JOHN RUSSON
Afterword: Theme and Variations: The Round of Life and the Chorale of
Thought 311
H.S. HARRIS
Hegel's Works 325
Publications of H.S. Harris 329
JAMES DEVIN
Contributors 347
Acknowledgments
Bringing this volume into existence was very much a cooperative activity. The
co-editorship makes this obvious at one level, but there are many other levels of
cooperation that are not so obvious. First, we must thank all the contributors for
being willing to shape their contributions around the common theme of 'tradi-
tion,' which emerged only through a year of letter-writing and discussion, and
for the effort they all put into reading and commenting on each other's pieces in
order to lend the volume coherence. Second, we must single out for special
thanks John Burbidge, who did a great deal to help us put the volume together
and who kindly undertook to write the foreword on Harris. Third, we must thank
Ron Schoeffel, editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Press, who was
enormously supportive of our project from the beginning and without whose
advice and help the volume would never have come to press.
Fourth, we must thank all those who contributed financially to the project: the
Acadia University Faculty Association, Christopher Adair-Toteff, Rolf Ahlers,
Karl Ameriks, Kostas Bagakis, Simon Barrington-Ward, Patricia Scavuzzo
Bascuas, Jennifer Bates, Gene and Kay Baur, Michael Baur, Bishop's Univer-
sity, Kenneth G. Botsford, Nicholas Boyle, Charles F. Brennan, Harry Brod,
Robert F. Brown, Randolph Buchanan, John Burbidge, Graham Caswell, Moon-
Gil Chung, Ardis B. Collins, Katharina Comoth, James Connelly, Bernard
Cullen, William Desmond, James Devin, George di Giovanni, Andre Doz, Louis
Dupre, David A. Duquette, Patricia Pagan, Vincent J. Ferrara, Cinzia Ferrini,
Douglas Frame, Peter Fuss, James V. Geisendorfer, Philip Grier, Justus Hartnack,
the Hegel Society of America, Peter Hodgson, Michael H. Hoffheimer, E.R.
Klein, George L. Kline, James P. Kow, Hayo B.E.D. Krombach, Dominic Le
Fave, David Leopold, Eric v.d. Luft, John McCumber, David MacGregor, John
Maisonneuve, Bruce Merrill, David Merrill, Giuseppe Micheli, Patricia J. Mills,
David Morris, Peter Nicholson, Walter T. Odell, Alan L.T. Paterson, Zbigniew
viii Acknowledgments
Pelczynski, Mark C.E. Peterson, Riccardo Pozzo, Harry Prosch, Heidi M. Ravven,
Abigail L. Rosenthal, John Russon, William F. Ryan, Dale M. Schlitt, Helmut
Schneider, Andrew Shanks, Daniel E. Shannon, Gary Shapiro, William K.
Sheridan, Peter Simpson, Larry Stepelevich, Peter G. Stillman, Thomas Suh,
William Sweet, Maria Talero, Michael G. Vater, Richard L. Velkley, Florindo
Volpacchio, John Walker, Kenneth R. Westphal, and Richard Dien Winfield.
Fifth, we are grateful to John Parry for his careful copy-editing of the entire
manuscript.
Finally, we thank H.S. Harris for reading the whole manuscript and writing the
afterword.
John Russon
Michael Baur
Foreword:
Hume, Hegel, and Harris
JOHNW.BURBIDGE
Henry Harris established his reputation by writing a massive, two-volume
intellectual biography of the young Hegel. For the first time, the scattered texts
from Tubingen, Bern, Frankfurt, and Jena were integrated into a single pattern
that traced the systematic development of Hegel's thought. It soon became the
standard reference for anyone, anywhere, who wanted to understand the relation
between the youthful, idealistic tutor and the mature, established professor.
The two volumes of Hegel's Development - Toward the Sunlight (1770-1801)
and Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806) -both marked the culmination of Harris's
earlier pilgrimage through Gentile and Collingwood to Hegel and served as
prolegomena to his primary objective: a full-scale commentary on Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit. It is tempting, then, to think of him as an idealist, a
graduate of Oxford, standing in the tradition of Bradley and Bosanquet,
McTaggart and Mure. Yet, though an undergraduate at St Edmund's Hall whil
G.R.G. Mure still held sway at Merton, he never studied with Mure, and his
subsequent immersion in Hegelian texts has only confirmed his distance from
the right-wing Hegelians who see speculative philosophy as another name for
theology. When he comes to the end of Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806) it is
that theological reading that becomes the predominant target for his criticisms.
Harris identifies not with the idealist traditions of Oxford and Cambridge but
with the empiricist traditions of David Hume. He is as regular in his attendance
at conferences on Hume as he is at gatherings of Hegelians. Even though Hegel
devotes barely four paragraphs to Hume in his 1825-6 lectures on the history of
philosophy, Harris recognizes that, if he wants to make Hegel speak English (in
the same way that Hegel wanted to make philosophy speak German), he must
appropriate not only Hume's transparent style but also his philosophical pro-
gram: 'When therefore we entertain any Suspicion, that a philosophical Term is