Abstract

In his ‘Anthropology’ Hegel examines the body-soul problem. Hegel’s conceptual distinctions in the ‘Anthropology’ clearly get past the post-Cartesian paradigm. Here corporeality is not the other of the soul; rather is corporeality in the soul as soul in real. According to the traditional body-soul relationship - the soul is inside the body. But this is not simply reversed. Hegel can rather show that certain conceptual distinctions, such as “body”, “soul”, and “spirit/mind” must necessarily be made. Therefore these conceptual patterns are not merely thought, but because they are thought, they become real. A dualism of post-Cartesian design is therefore eliminated.