Hegel’s lack of charity toward the instrument metaphor is n… - Merold Westphal

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Hegel’s lack of charity toward the instrument metaphor is not arbitrary. It represents his disenchantment with the assumption that knowledge is power and that method is the means to this end… Descartes’ conception of method, like Bacon’s, is linked to this idea of knowledge as an instrument of power… The same could be said of Locke. Hegel can rightly claim that the instrument metaphor pervades the epistemological tradition he is seeking to transcend.

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Merold Westphal (born 1940) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Fordham University.

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