ABSTRACT

Although contemporary powers metaphysics largely understands itself as a metaphysical realist undertaking, recently powers have come to the surface also within an idealist context. This paper aims to characterize and motivate an absolute idealist conception of powers. I compare realist and idealist powers metaphysics in their respective responses to Humean scepticism concerning powers, thereby motivating the claim that the very idea of a power is actually best understood as an idealist idea. I continue to characterize the absolute idealist’s understanding of power, for which it is necessary to see that the content of her power notion is inseparable from the way in which she arrives at that notion. I close with a brief reflection on the absolute idealist’s understanding of the power of thought, which is where idealist and realist powers metaphysics diverge most radically.

摘要

尽管当代权力形而上学在很大程度上将自己理解为形而上学的现实主义事业，但最近权力也在唯心主义的背景下浮出水面。本文旨在描述和激发一种绝对理想主义的权力概念。我比较了现实主义和唯心主义权力形而上学对休谟关于权力的怀疑论各自的反应，从而激发了这样一种主张，即权力的概念实际上最好被理解为一种唯心主义的概念。我继续刻画绝对唯心主义者对权力的理解，为此有必要看到她的权力观念的内容与她得出该观念的方式密不可分。最后，我简要回顾一下绝对唯心主义者对思想力量的理解，