In what way is Hegelian metaphysics as this theo-logic the completion of Western philosophy?
Completion here means no higher, the absolute fully known. But this already in pre-Kantian metaphysics! Regress? No, there only finite, theoretical- speculative knowledge. Kant: finite practical knowledge.
Now infinite knowledge, not in relationships, finitudes. Now one gets serious about the perfectum (mathematically: consentiens [in agreement]): absolute identity; perfectissimum as absolute spirit. Metaphysics absolute in the What (God) and How (principle of contradiction). Knowing as absolute equates itself with absolute Being; by creating absolute Being, it knows it and just simply is it.
| Western philosophy | |
| in the inception | at the end |
| deepest urgency of questionworthiness in the struggle with the unmastered powers of truth and errancy. Philosophy as the highest power that arouses the people and clarifies its Dasein. Realm of decision, moment of decision. | highest blessedness of the supersession of all oppositions; powerlessness of mere conceptual oppositions; failure and dying-out of all questioning. Empty eternity of the decisionless. |