Vedāntic conception of Supreme Being in kālidāsa

Arup Jyoti Sarma

Volume: 08 Issue: 01 2022

Abstract:

In this paper, I shall discuss how Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) shows that human cognition takes a journey from the sphere of ordinary consciousness, which is the field of daily experience to the knowledge of the absolute truth. However, the Phenomenology of Spirit does not alone give us the knowledge of the absolute truth. The foundation of the absolute truth that Hegel gives in his Phenomenology is also found in his Science of Logic (1812-16). Hegel’s logic deals with not only the general forms of thought-with the notion, the judgment and the syllogism-but the structure of Being per se. Hegel’s logic is therefore both an epistemology and an ontology. Hegel’s epistemology is an important aspect of his ontology. The epistemological position of Hegel can be discussed with reference to his criticism of the Kantian theory of knowledge. In the epistemological situations, Hegel uses three sources of knowledge. They are sense-certainty, perception, understanding and the reason. Sense-certainty is the source of our knowledge of the ordinary consciousness of things. Hegelian notion of sense-certainty can be compared with the Kantian view that human knowledge begins with and terminates in sensibility. Understanding is the capacity of reflective interpretation. Understanding conceives a world of finite entities, governed by the principle of identity and opposition. The understanding introduces the conception of force and its expressions. The force is manifested in its expressions.

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