Hegel - to think

by Maria Odete Madeira

To Hegel, the territory of science is the thinking, to think is to integrate the existence in a plane of non-reductionist universality, that is, the universality must be considered in a perspective of a systemic totality in relation with the respective parts that constitute it.

Hegel designates by element or ether the constitutive horizon of science, characterizing that element or ether from its translucid and simple character, that allows one to signal it as a standpoint (standpunkt), that is, as a taking of position that preoccupies itself with the reality from its fundament.

The ether constitutes, for Hegel, a universal principle of possibility of all the experience.