Philosophy and Personality, part 2.2C: Hume, Kant, Hegel – as Philosophers (part 3 of 4)

The Dialectical World History of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
. . . .Continued from 2,2B. (part 2 of 4). . .
Hegel took causality in a quite different direction. Disinterested in apparent mechanistic causal relations, such as are observed in the natural sciences, and which were of such primary concern to Hume and to Kant, he developed a notion of organic causality that emerges “dialectically” from consciousness itself. This is a form of causal knowledge that cannot lead to any predictive knowle...