%0 Journal Article
%T On the Need for Speculative Philosophy Today
%A Andrew James Taggart
%J Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
%D 2012
%I Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
%X ¡®On the Need for Speculative Philosophy Today¡¯ takes seriously Hegel¡¯s claims that speculative philosophy begins in diremption and ends in higher-order conceptualization. To make Hegel¡¯s theses more perspicuous, I examine the set of modern life needs¡ªhistorical, metaphysical, phenomenological, and political¡ªthat give rise to speculative philosophy. I then attempt to show that speculative philosophy¡¯s ultimate aim is to provide us with higher-order consolation. In the final section, I mean to draw on the second sense of speculation, conjecturing that rational form of inquiry I have undertaken is a propaedeutic to ¡®philosophies of action¡¯: philosophy of life and public philosophy.
%K Speculative Philosophy
%K Hegel
%K Reason
%U http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/268/435