Abstract: In Hegels view， truth does not have an absolute beginning or conclusion. It is a whole from generation to generation at different stages and with different branches， which is a process and system of concept development. By abandoning the traditional ontology and the “first principles” of Kants critical philosophy， Hegel reshapes the fundamental role which human thinking plays in knowing the truth. In Hegels interpretation of speculative rationality， the modern intellectual thinking realizes the transcendence of sense， intuition and intellectuality， reaches the dialectical unity on the basis of rationality， subverts such traditional thinking forms of truth as the correspondence theory and the coherence theory， and arrives at the unity between human activity and human object， self and nature， the specific and the whole， and the limited and the limitless. Philosophy becomes knowledge， moves towards science and turns into the truth， all being based on speculative rationality. In fact， the principle evolution and the orderly expansion and development of philosophy history is understanding and getting closer to the truth by turning to human speculative rationality.

Key words: Hegel, intellectuality, speculative rationality, absolute spirit, truth