The Flight of the Owl and the Song of the Lark

Notes on freedom in G.W.F. Hegel

Abstract

More than a speculative thesis, a comparative analysis of the beginning and end of Hegel’s Science of Logic may represent a privileged position for observing peculiar nuances of that topic so dear to much of the whole central philosophical tradition in the development of classical German philosophy – freedom. Even though the concept of freedom cannot be distinguished from the processes of its concrete achievement according to Hegel, I will try to demonstrate the theoretical structures that partly precede and partly guide the different forms of its execution.