Abstract

CALDERON GONZALEZ, Jacinto H. THE LAW OF THE HEART AND THE OBLIVION OF THE ENDS. Univ. philos. [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.59, pp.65-80. ISSN 0120-5323.

The law of the heart and the madness of infatuation [Das Gesetz des Herzens und der Wahnsinn des Eigendünkels] is one of the several figures of consciousness we meet with in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In this philosophical work can be observed different possibilities of the individualist one, who relying on the beauty and virtue of his heart, pretends to change a world opposed to him, and meant as hypocrite and wicked. In the process of change, the virtuous heart becomes a revolutionary one or a terrorist one practicing the law of his heart, but reversing it and causing the opposite of what was intended, namely, far more terror and violence.

Keywords : Law of the heart; individuality; world course; law of reality; madness and infatuation.

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