ANDRÉ VILINS

This research proposes to examine the concept of immanent critique in G. W. F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In such, our goal is to show that immanent critique characterizes the proposed approach f investigation in the work, which deals with the problem of grounding the criterion of critique as a standard of measurement [Maßstab] that arises when comparing a one-sided consciousness - which thus cannot accept anything other than the standard of measurement for truth set by itself - with a perspective that assumes the Absolute for its development. To this end, It is of particular interest the research what is presented in the introduction to the work, since it is there that the philosopher explains his vision of the principles that will govern the investigation of the phenomenological knowledge that appears alongside what he calls Science. As we see it, the concept shows the originality of Hegel's philosophy in terms of its approach and also demonstrates a maturing of an issue that was already present for the philosopher years before the publication of his work.