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Book Symposium Hegelpd-Prize 2022: Gregory Moss, “Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysisc” (Padova, 4 October 2023)

October 4, 2023 Università di Padova
Sala Diano

Piazza Capitaniato 7, Padova

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We are pleased to announce that Gregory Moss (Chinese University of Hong Kong) will be the guest of our research group for a book symposium on his book Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity (Routledge, 2020), which has been awarded of hegelpd-prize 2022.

The symposium will take place at the University of Padova, Aula Diano (Piazza Capitaniato 7, Palazzo Liviano, 2nd floor, right-end stairs) on October 4th, 2023 at 11:00.

The symposium will feature a lecture by Gregory Moss, followed by an open discussion introduced by comments by Michela Bordignon (UF ABC) and Marco Bonutto (Unipd).

Please find below the abstract of Gregory Moss’s lecture as well as the program of the event.

For further information contact Elena Tripaldi at: elena.tripaldi@phd.unipd.it

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Program:

11.00 Welcome – Luca Illetterati
11.10 Gregory Moss (CUHK), G.W.F. Hegel’s Monism: On the Singularity and Freedom of the Concept
12.30 Break
12.40 – 13.30 Open Discussion on Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity
Introduction to the discussion: Michela Bordignon (UF ABC); Marco Bonutto (Unipd)
Chair: Elena Tripaldi (FU Berlin)
Participants: Laura Dequal, Giulia La Rocca, Giulia Bernard, Armando Manchisi, Luca Corti, Barbara Santini, Claudia Cavaliere, Elena Nardelli, Mattia Megli, Silvia Locatelli, Giovanni Mezzavilla, Giovanna Luciano
13.30 Lunch

 

Abstract of the lecture:

In “Hegel’s Monism: On the Singularity and Freedom of the Concept” I discuss six epistemological and metaphysical problems, some of which have plagued the history of Western thought for millennia: the problem of nihilism, the problem of instantiation, the problem of the missing difference, the problem of absolute empiricism, the problem of onto-theology, and the third man regress. I show that these problems are generated by a series of problematic assumptions, one of which is the assumption that universality and particularity are distinct principles. Having diagnosed the problem, I turn to Hegel’s Science of Logic to illuminate how Hegel solves these problems. By denying the separation of the principles of universality and particularity, Hegel creatively rethinks the concept as the self-particularizing universal. Finally, I demonstrate how Hegel’s commitment to the self-particularizing universal engenders a radical metaphysical and epistemological monism, in which the concept is the singular being of truth and freedom.