Hegel between the philosophy of reality and philosophy of actuality

In the introductory part of the article, we briefly examine the crisis of the Hegelian system that took place in the middle and second half of the 19th century, and its subsequent ‘revival’ as a kind of reflection of the turbulent processes of modern European history. In the next part, we substantiate a seemingly paradoxical idea that Hegel’s philosophy is the first and, perhaps, the deepest experience of self-understanding of the modernity. It was in Hegel’s philosophy that the radical overcoming of Cartesian dualism was initiated on which the scientist worldview of the early Modern Age was based. In the sections of the article with the titles ‘From nature to culture’ and ‘From reality to actuality’, we offer a methodological substantiation of the radical change created by Hegel. The shift of philosophical attention from the world of natural givenness to the world of cultural values created by humans resulted in a turn from the interpretation of motionless objects and entities to the