著者

渡辺 祐邦 WATANABE Yuho

出版者

北見工業大学

雑誌

北見工業大学研究報告

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.2, pp.445-466, 1976-06

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J. Hoffmeister has pointed out that Hegel’s view on the culture and history was strongly affected by the writings of a popular philosopher Christian Garve. Garve was indeed one of the most important figures in the German Enlightenment, though his works were almost forgotten today. He was not only a best-known writer who intended to make people capable of thinking by themselves, but a philosopher who broke a path leading to a new philosophy of history. In an essay which he contributed to Neue Bibliothek der schonen Wissenschaften und freien Kunste, one of the most influential magazines for literary criticism of his time, he treated the problem of priority of the modern poets. The issue was not brand new. It was an eighteenth-century revival of the famous controversy in the seventeenth century, Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. His view was, however, entirely new. He discussed the problem by observing the differences and changing structures in the ways to get and transmit ideas among both ancient and modern peoples. He claimed also that the experiences of ancient people had become a property of mankind, of which modern people partake. This very concept introduced by Garve is no doubt one of the bases of Hegel’s philosophy of mind.