The “Incomprehensible Mystery” of Life. Place and Statute of the figure of Organic for the Understanding of Reason and Absolute in Hegel’s Philosophy

Abstract

The aim of this work is to examine and determine the status and place of life for Hegel’s concept of reason, as well as the relationship between such determinations and the systematic structure. The doubling of the concept of life in Logic, in which life appears as the immediate existence of the idea that has to be overcome in the idea of cognition and in the absolute idea and, at the same time, reappears in the latter, defining its very nature and specificity anticipates and collects the place of life within the systematic framework; here it appears as a constitutive and genetic but not defining moment of the spirit, since it has to be overcome by it and, at the same time, as the true and most proper peculiarity of the spirit.