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2007

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Existe una tendencia a estudiar los puntos de encuentro o desencuentro entre Kant y Hegel pero se olvida la reflexión de Schelling, crucial para comprender el diálogo entre estos sistemas de pensamiento. Un caso en que se patentiza este olvido se advierte en Sublime Understanding, Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel (2005) de Kirk Pillow, quien desarrolla un modelo estético para ensanchar la noción de entendimiento humano. Partiendo de la Crítica del juicio de Kant y las Lecciones de estética de Hegel, Pillow encuentra una instancia intermedia entre el valor cognoscitivo de la determinación conceptual hegeliana y la indeterminación del juicio estético kantiano a la que denomina entendimiento sublime pero olvida que Schelling es quien mejor se ajustaría a dicha instancia porque presenta ambas caras: la indeterminación y la determinación del arte, ahí donde cabe la posibilidad de comprender pero a la vez de aceptar un remanente incomprensible. Yo sostengo que si se comprende la noción de arte concebida por Schelling desde su sistema de identidad, se justifica la alternativa del “entendimiento sublime” que ofrece Pillow, pues el arte consigue la indiferencia de lo real y lo ideal, de lo infinito y lo finito, de la naturaleza y el hombre.

Abstract:

There is a tendency to study points of connection or disjunction between Kant and Hegel leaving out Schelling’s reflection, which is essential to understand the dialogue between those systems of thought. An evident example of that is Kirk Pillow’s book Sublime Understanding, Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel (2005). Based on Kant’s The Critique of Judgement and in Hegel’s Aesthetics, Pillow develops an aesthetic model in order to enhance the concept of human understanding that he names: sublime understanding. It consists of an intermediate case among the Hegelian cognitive value of concept determination and the Kantian aesthetic judgement indetermination, but Pillow omits Schelling’s agreement with both: determination and indetermination of art. Precisely, art has both, possibility to understand and acceptance of impossibility to understand. I sustain that if the notion of art conceived by Schelling’s identity system, it is possible to support Pillow’s alternative of “sublime understanding”, because art reaches indifference among real and ideal, finite and infinite, nature and human being.

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Alternative title: Identity and Understanding: Schelling or an Intermediate Instance Between Kant and Hegel

This article was originally published in En-Claves del Pensamiento, available at https://www.enclavesdelpensamiento.mx/index.php/enclaves/article/view/39

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