Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• kaveh khoorabeh ¹
• Ahmad Ali Heydari ²

¹ M.A. in Western Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor of Philosophy, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The issue of cognition is one of the important issues that philosophers attempted to find out its process of identifying and interacting with the mind or subject of thought by facing the outside world. In this process, what precede cognition are the ontological problem of the existing reality and the interaction of the thinking subject with the outside world. Since philosophers have distanced between cognition and reality and considered minds as tools and media for the attainment of truth and reality, Hegel has been critical of these attitudes in order to redefine cognition as science. Therefore, he should be considered the pioneer of the phenomenological project in the field of philosophical thought. In his phenomenology, the question of the process of human cognition is simulated with the whole of philosophical thought throughout history. In this essay, the authors attempt to show how Hegel enables the transition from the stage of natural consciousness to the attainment of absolute cognition by rejecting Kant's existing reality into two areas of phenomenal and invariant.

Keywords

• Knowledge
• Cognition
• Consciousness
• Objective Idealism
• Self-Consciousness
• Phenomenology
• Absolute Knowledge