- 作者: Richard G. Stevens
- 出版社/メーカー: Cambridge University Press
- 発売日: 2010/12/23
- メディア: ペーパーバック
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Richard G. Stevens Political Philosophy: An Introduction*1から。
ヘーゲルの『歴史哲学』を参照して。
ということで、以下「弁証法（dialectic）」の話が続く。
“Reason” is understood by most people even today to be, as Plato and Aristotle had used the word, a faculty of the mind. It is that faculty by which one endeavors to understand or attempts to explain things – what they are and how they function. Human beings are endowed with this faculty to varying degrees. Some have more, some less. One cannot help but think of reason as itself a thing, something outside of us in which we participate. Hegel, however, seems to make it into truly a thing. He reifies it. It is not just that our intellects function by way of it. It does thoings. When we reason it is as though we are possessed by a daimon. It (reaosn) uses our intellection to achieve its goals. It achieves its goals over time through the historical process. It puts one over on mankind. Hegel goes so far as to call this the “cunning of reason.” Not to let ourselves get carried away in remaking this, maybe all that Hegel means is that reason functions through rules, that it is simply logic, and that logic has a driving force to it so that when we think of ourselves as “using” logic, in reality, it is using us. It works through us. (p.255)
ところで、ヘーゲルはたんに「理性を物象化する」だけはなく、擬人化している（personifies）といえる。石の狡知（cunning of a stone）とは言えないでしょう。
