Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics

<p><strong>Winner of the hegel<em>pd</em>–prize 2022</strong></p><p>Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence. <em>Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics</em> demonstrates that by reading Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept in his <i>Science of Logic </i>as a form of Absolute Dialetheism Hegel’s logic of the concept can account for the possibility of absolute existence. Through a close examination of Hegel’s concept of self-referential universality in his <em>Science of Logic</em> Moss demonstrates how Hegel’s concept of singularity is designed to solve a host of metaphysical and epistemic paradoxes central to this problematic. He illustrates how Hegel’s revolutionary account of universality particularity and singularity offers solutions to six problems that have plagued the history of Western philosophy: the problem of nihilism the problem of instantiation the problem of the missing difference the problem of absolute empiricism the problem of onto-theology and the third man regress. Moss shows that Hegel’s affirmation and development of a revised ontological argument for God’s existence is designed to establish the necessity of absolute existence. By adopting a metaphysical reading of Richard Dien Winfield’s foundation free epistemology Moss critically engages dominant readings and contemporary debates in Hegel scholarship. <i>Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics </i>will appeal to scholars interested in Hegel German Idealism 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy metaphysics epistemology and contemporary European thought.</p>