Isn Hegels Absolute the same as Logomachy, that is an insane attle of thoughts, a pointless and ambitious overestimation of Reason?
No. According to Hegel, Reason – to be reason – is by definition reasonable. The abuse of Reason is clearly no longer Reason. The charges of ‘Logomachy’ (and, similarly, ‘Panlogism’) come from generations of Kantians and Neo-Kantians who struggle to come to terms with Hegel’s challenge to their mentor, Kant. Hegel made a revolution in Reason by challenging Kant’s hypothesis of the Unknowable Thing-in-itself, following the attacks on critical philosophy already attempted by Jacobi, Fichte and Schelling. Hegel is unconvinced by the traditional explanations on how knowledge takes place. He criticizes and rejects the epistemological theories based on the absolute separation between a knowing subject and a known object. For Hegel, ‘subject’ and ‘object’ are the dialectical moments of a deeper unity, the (dialectical) unity of Thought and Being (and, from the practical vantage point, of normative and affirmative propositions). Reason is not so powerless that it cannot know itself, that it ca
