HEGEL'S CRITIQUE OF IMMEDIATE KNOWING. THE COMPARISON WITH JACOBI IN THE "THIRD POSITION OF THOUGHT TOWARD OBJECTIVITY"

In the paragraphs of the Encyclopedia (1830) dedicated to the "Third position of thought towards objectivity" Hegel critically examines Jacobi's 'immediate knowing'. My aim is to reconstruct the main arguments of these paragraphs, still little studied today, while trying to shed light on three issues: (a) the relevance given here to Jacobi's philosophy; (b) the problems that arise within the epistemological models of immediacy; (c) the passage from the analysis of immediate knowing to the speculative thinking of the Logic.