Abstract

In his Hegel: A Re-examination, Professor John Niemeyer Findlay provided the English-speaking academic community with its first sympathetic account of the method and substance of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature. Until then, with only rare and obscure exceptions, English and American Hegelians had thought fit - as Findlay noted - to ignore the Naturphilosophie mainly on account of the allegedly “outmoded character of the science on which it reposes.” Findlay’s emphatic judgment was that.