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Abstract
Meaning and purpose of philosophical systems: Pall Skulason’s system in
light of Hegel
Páll Skúlason often spoke of the close affinity of his thought to the philosophy of
Hegel. In his last work, Merking og tilgangur (Meaning and Purpose), he exposes
nonetheless his own system independently from the extremely ambitious effort
of Hegel at systematic philosophy. The idea of this paper was, then, to compare
the two systems, of Skúlason and Hegel, in order to clarify the former’s pos-
ition vis-à-vis the main options in classical philosophy. The conclusion is that
Skúlason was indeed right to stress his proximity to Hegel. His theory of three
worlds – namely, the world of nature, the world of the mind and the world of
meaning – can be understood as a reinterpretation of Hegel’s conception of truth.
Skúlason’s thesis, according to which the world of meaning is the true world,
owes its force to the interrelation of the other worlds whereby they become this
world of meaning and reveal their truth. To hold that truth is the whole, as Hegel
did, is equivalent to holding that truth is meaning, since meaning can only realise
itself as a systematic whole. The article finally draws the lesson that the meaning
and truth of Skúlason’s system, because it is faithful to a Hegelian conception of
truth, cannot be grasped from the outside as separated from other systems, since
otherwise it would undo the organic whole in which meaning thrives.
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