ABSTRACT
At an earlier stage in the Introduction-Section 6-Hegel has identified ‘ordinary feelings’ as that which forbids the naming of the ‘contingent’ as the ‘actual’. If this approach is taken a step further then the stakes of the metaphorics of fruit can be expressed in terms of the naming of the ‘principle of philosophy’. While it is clear that ‘empirical philosophy’ can be named philosophy, it cannot bear the name if what is named is the universal, the ‘principle of philosophy’, philosophy having become its own object. The construal of the relationship between universal and particular in which the universal is the basis of the relationship between particulars is intended to guard against the misuse of the name. The relationship to the Absolute (universal) as already given entails in addition to the basis of the relation between particulars (appearances) the possibility of their inclusion in the universal (Absolute) and thus its inclusion in them and therefore their right to bear the name.
