No thought is without an elementary principle. What is your judgement?

Answer 1

Consciousness is the elementary principle for thought.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm

'Outline of Hegel's Phenomenology
INTRODUCTION
1. Our ordinary Knowing has before itself only the object which it knows, but does not at first make an object of itself, i.e., of the Knowing. But the whole which is extant in the act of knowing is not the object alone, but also the Ego that knows, and the relation of the Ego and the object to each other, i.e. Consciousness.

2. In Philosophy, the determinations of the Knowing are not considered exclusively in the phase of determinations of things, but likewise as determinations of the Knowing, to which they belong, although in common likewise to things. In other words: they are not taken merely as objective but also as subjective determinations - or rather as definite species of relation of the object and subject to each other. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm


The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative (organic psychology).

Answer 2

Without spending hrs thinking and writing I would have to say that is basically a true statement all thing grow from and are shaped by what came before them. Unless you are saying all thought has some kind of direct link to some sort of base absolute truth then in that case i would have to say not so much. lol

where did you get this statement from I know I have heard it before.

Answer 3

All things have basic parts and you must know its basic before you will know the whole part