Abstract

“Hegel for Anglo–Saxons” would have been an appropriate subtitle to Professor Findlay’s philosophically very interesting work. By an ingenious confrontation with the ideas of Wittgenstein and modern neo–positivism, the salient theses of Hegel’s philosophic doctrine are subjected to a “testing for consistency”. The result, although it must remain only one of the possible interpretations of Hegelianism, is a Hegel freed from much of the terminological baggage and poetic romanticism which render the reading of his works so exacerbating for students of the 20th century. Thus, this work recommends itself to the student of philosophy as much by the insights it can give him into the monumental work of G. W. F. Hegel as by the object–lesson it provides on methodological procedure in philosophical interpretation.