Space, time and history: a hegelian reading of Kant

Abstract

This article queries for the kantian suppositions that in Hegel are shown as the most deep originally Hegelian. It is limited to the study of the ‘Sense-Certainty: Or the ‘This' and ‘Meaning'', first chapter of the Phenomenology, and to the ‘Transcendental Aesthetics', first chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason. Firstly it will be seen that Phenomenology as the Science of the Experience of Consciousness, is a development of the apperception of the subject as indicated in the Transcendental Aesthetics. Afterwards, the relations between the concepts of Space and Time in both works will be revised. This will be the basis to understand, in a third place, how consciousness, that for Hegel is temporal and historical, is selfconsciousness. In the third section both Hegelian suppositions will be shown as an acceptance of a Kantian precision. Lastly, we will try to explain the Hegelian rupture according to this problematic.