Un “mistero incomprensibile”: il problema mente-corpo nella filosofia dello spirito di Hegel

The essay aims to analyze the relationship between mind and body in the Hegel’s
philosophy of subjective spirit. Through a rapid reconstruction of the influences of
emerging empirical sciences, such as biology with his vitalist positions,
physiognomy and phrenology, the essay aims to highlight not only the role that in
the structure of Hegel’s view assumes the teleological vision derived from Aristotle,
mediated by third Kantian critique, but also the epistemological significance of the
Hegelian methodological attitude. Hegel rejects the attempts to bring back the
relationship mind-body to a dualistic view, and proposes a dialectic solution that
goes beyond the rigidity of an attitude which is crushed both from a naturalist
perspective as well as from an anti-naturalist one. This methodological approach
may still offer an interesting contribution to the contemporary debate