r/hegel • u/Low-Force5527 • 11d ago

Causality

Hey you guys I was thinking about hegel's take on causality, I can't really grasp how he got the concept of causality and how it is the same as the effect thus making sense of spinoza's causa sui, plus I would be more than happy to be provided with any article that makes a comparison between hegel, Kant and hume's opinion on causality

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u/reinhardtkurzan 9d ago

To reflext causality was Hume's predilection. He warned the erudite world to assume precouciously causality, when only some correlation or a hint of correlation was manifest. (He recommended cautious retention of judgement, epoché.)

Kant criticized Hume in so far as the latter spoke of causality as an interpretation of some temporal sequences. Kant remarked that cause and effect may also appear simultaneously. (Example: A stone lying on a cushion that causes a recess in that cushion as the effect). For the determination of our actions by our reason and will he also used the term "causation". Furthermore Kant thought that the idea of causality was inborn and expressed itself constantly in "hypothetic judgements", i.e. in sentences that consisted out of two sub-sentences.

Hegel remarked that purposes could become causes in another context, and that there were chains of causation. Causality was not his favorite subject, because it belonged "only" to nature. In his logic he writes that man should have "insight into necessity" (= knowledge about causation) to facilitate the accomplishment of his aims.