Das Absolute

Christian Krijnen's concise essay deals with the philosophical problem par excellence: the absolute. Admittedly, no one trying to gain an overview of the topics of contemporary philosophy would claim that it is the science of the absolute. Nevertheless, the concept of the absolute has been one of the fundamental concepts of philosophy from the very beginning.
For long stretches, the book offers a systematic interpretation of Hegel's system of philosophy, which - alongside Kant's transcendental idealism - is, in the author's opinion, the most advanced position that philosophy has to offer. Hegel once said that the power of the spirit is only as great as its expression and its depth only as deep as it dares to expand and lose in its interpretation. Accordingly, the breadth of the spirit also depends on how far it has descended into its depths. The absolute is this descent and the associated expansion. Starting from thinking as the principle of objectivity and thus the starting point for determining the absolute, the author explains how thinking develops from being via essence to concept. This is followed by a chapter on nature and spirit, in which the aim is to understand the world in which we live as the realisation of the absolute.
In accordance with the systematic orientation, no special prior knowledge is required to read this book. The text, which is divided into 128 short sections, including its terminology, is comprehensible on its own, i.e. on the basis of the developed argumentation.