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Subsume logic6/7/2023 ![]() Historically, the individual subject only gradually distinguishes herself from the social subject of which she is a part. Hegel further developed the concept to overcome the division between the individual “Subject” or person and the corporate or collective “Subject,” by means of an understanding of “Subject” as a self-conscious system of activity, in which the Individual, Universal and Particular aspects are coordinated. ![]() It was Kant who defined the “Subject” in ethical terms, as the moral agent, having freedom and subject to moral laws. For dialectics, subject and object can only be understood as opposite aspects of the subject-object relation and thus inseparably part of the same relation. The “subject-object” problem, or the separation of subject and object is often taken as a fundamental problem of Western thinking, ever since Descartes invented the “Cartesian divide” as an epistemological problem. In the context of history, “subject” means the agent of history, the people who are the conscious architects of events, rather than their unconscious tools. The term is often used as a synonym for “human being”, or the consciousness of a human being. “Subject” refers to the person or entity carrying out and responsible for an action, rather than the object which is being acted upon. Sublation, a translation of the German word aufheben, is a key concept of dialectics.įurther Reading: Hegel in the Shorter Logic. Thus: “To supersede, put an end to, but simultaneously maintain, preserve” As another example, in our childhood we wrestle with certain problems which are forgotten by the time we are adults, but in fact it is those struggles which have formed us into the adult that we now are, which is no longer troubled by those same problems. The idea of sublation is that the old idea or principle is not simply disproved and disposed of but is contained in the new higher principle that has replaced it. “ To supersede, put an end to, but simultaneously maintain, preserve”įor example, in the history of philosophy a certain idea is dominant in a certain period after a time, the idea fades in its significance, or a principle is found to be false, or the problem is resolved and attention focussed on new problems.
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