黑格爾曾在他的《邏輯學》中對他那個時代的形而上學的式微做過這樣的感慨[1]: 事實上,再沒有人對于形而上學的形式或內容或兩者感興趣。 (英譯原文: The fact is that there no longer exists any interest either in the form or the content of metaphysics or in both together. ) 對此,黑格爾接下來感傷地說道, 當一個國家對它的憲法理論,它的國民情操,它的倫理道德漠不關心的時候,那是令人震驚的;同樣令人震驚的是一個國家失去了它的形而上學,當自我思考之靈已不再存在于一個國家的生命之中。 (英譯原文: If it is remarkable when a nation has become indifferent to its constitutional theory, to its national sentiments, its ethical customs and virtues, it is certainly no less remarkable when a nation loses its metaphysics, when the spirit which contemplates its own pure essence is no longer a present reality in the life of the nation. ) 黑格爾之後的一個漫長的時間裏形而上學不但在包括德國在內的世界各地被作爲各種巫術的總稱而廣遭撻伐,並且很多人甚至因爲被打上形而上學的標簽而遭到職業的排擠或政治打壓乃至人身的迫害,如果黑格爾能夠預知這種狀況的發生不知他會做何感想。 [1] Science of Logic, by G Hegel , 1816, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hlprefac.htm, § 2 |