ABSTRACT
IN the previous chapter we have given briefly Hegel's view of conceptual thinking. We shall examine it in this chapter. The first difficulty in accepting the view is whether thinking, if it is lifted to the level of Self-consciousness or Absolute Consciousness, can still remain. In Self-consciousness notion is identical with being, subject with object. And if there is no object to think of thought itself will disappear. This view, we have shown, is also supported by Dr. McTaggart. The need for the application of the categories arises only when the subject faces the object. Categories exist and have meaning only at this level. If lifted to the level of Selfconsciousness, they disappear and lose the significance they possess here.
