ABSTRACT
For Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, logic and metaphysics are sublated, and rationality is not simply an abstract account of our propositions, as in nominalism, but, rather, is constitutive of actual structures of the objective world itself. Hegel's metaphysics is therefore a crucial component to his practical philosophy and one that maintains its relevance in a self-described "post-metaphysical" age. Hegel's practical philosophy incorporates a critical metaphysics in that it seeks to grasp a kind of reality that cannot be explained through mere scientific reason nor from our deliberative practices alone. The necessary ingredients for a critical-practical reason can therefore be seen to exist within the metaphysical infrastructure that Hegel lays out for his social and political theory. What Hegel offers the people is a very different way to think about modernity and modern ethical life: one that emphasizes our social-relational essence and the kinds of ends that the society to which we belong are oriented.
