A Commentary on Hegel's Science of Logic

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
PART I QUALITY......Page 22
A. Pure Being......Page 24
B. Pure Nothing......Page 29
(a) The Unity of Being and Nothing......Page 30
(b) Moments of Becoming: Coming-to-Be and Ceasing-to-Be......Page 61
(c) Sublation of Becoming......Page 62
2 Determinate Being......Page 69
(a) Determinate Being in General......Page 70
(b) Quality......Page 72
(c) Something......Page 78
B. Finitude......Page 84
(a) Something and an Other......Page 85
B. Real Actuality......Page 0
(c) Finitude......Page 100
C. Infinity......Page 108
(b) Alternating Determination of theFinite and the Infinite......Page 109
(c) Affirmative Infinity......Page 112
3 Being-For-Self......Page 118
(a) Determinate Being and Being-For-Seif......Page 119
(b) Being-For-One......Page 121
(c) The One......Page 124
B. The One and the Many......Page 126
(a) The One in Its Own Self......Page 127
(b) The One and the Void......Page 130
(c) Many Ones: Repulsion......Page 132
(a) Exclusion of the One......Page 135
(b) The One One of Attraction......Page 142
(c) The Relation of Repulsion and Attraction......Page 144
Conclusion......Page 149
PART II QUANTITY......Page 152
4 Pure Quantity......Page 154
A. Pure Quantity......Page 157
B. Continuous and Discrete Magnitude......Page 168
C. Limitation of Quantity......Page 170
A. Number......Page 172
(a) Their Difference......Page 181
(b) Identity of Extensive and Intensive Magnitude......Page 184
(c) Alteration of Quantum......Page 186
(a) Its Notion......Page 187
(b) The Quantitative Infinite Progress......Page 189
(c) The Infinity of Quantum......Page 194
6 Quantitative Relation......Page 198
A. The Direct Ratio......Page 200
B. Inverse Ratio......Page 201
C. The Ratio of Powers......Page 204
Conclusion......Page 207
PART III MEASURE......Page 210
7 Measure and Specific Quantity......Page 212
A. The Specific Quantum......Page 219
(a) Rule......Page 223
(b) Specifying Measure......Page 225
(c) Relation of the Two Sides as Qualities......Page 227
C. Being-for-Self in Measure......Page 230
8 Real Measure......Page 233
(a) Combination of Two Measures......Page 235
(b) Measure as a Series of Measure Relations......Page 240
(c) Elective Affinity......Page 243
B. Nodal Line of Measure-Relations......Page 245
C. The Measureless......Page 249
A. Absolute Indifference......Page 254
B. Indifference as Inverse Ratio of Its Factors......Page 255
C. Transition into Essence......Page 261
Conclusion......Page 263
PART IV REFLECTION......Page 264
10 Illusory Being......Page 266
A. The Essential and the Unessential......Page 273
B. Illusory Being......Page 276
C. Reflection......Page 281
(a) Positing Reflection......Page 283
(b) External Reflection......Page 288
(c) Determining Reflection......Page 289
11 Determinations of Reflection......Page 293
A. Identity......Page 294
(a) Absolute Difference......Page 299
(b) Diversity......Page 300
(c) Opposition......Page 305
C. Contradiction......Page 312
12 Ground......Page 321
(a) Form and Essence......Page 324
(b) Form and Matter......Page 329
(c) Form and Content......Page 332
(a) Formal Ground......Page 333
(b) Real Ground......Page 337
(c) The Complete Ground......Page 340
(a) The Relatively Unconditioned......Page 343
(b) The Absolutely Unconditioned......Page 346
(c) Emergence of the Fact [Sache] into Existence......Page 349
Conclusion......Page 352
PART V APPEARANCE......Page 354
13 Existence......Page 356
(a) The Thing-in-Itself and Existence......Page 361
(b) Properly......Page 364
(c) The Reciprocal Action of Things......Page 366
B. The Constitution of the Thing Out of Matters......Page 369
C. Dissolution of the Thing......Page 372
14 Appearance......Page 375
A. The Law of Appearance......Page 376
B. The World of Appearance and the World-in-Itself......Page 383
C. Dissolution of Appearance......Page 387
15 Essential Relation......Page 390
A. Relation of Whole and Parts......Page 391
B. Relation of Force and Its Expression......Page 396
(a) The Conditionedness of Force......Page 398
(b) The Solicitation of Force......Page 399
(c) The Infinity of Force......Page 401
C. The Relation of Outer andInner......Page 402
PART VI ACTUALITY......Page 406
16 The Absolute......Page 408
A. The Exposition of the Absolute......Page 409
B. The Absolute Attribute......Page 412
C. The Mode of the Absolute......Page 413
17 Actuality......Page 417
A. Contingency......Page 418
C. Absolute Necessity......Page 425
18 The Absolute Relation......Page 429
A. The Relation of Substantiality......Page 430
B. The Relation of Causality......Page 433
(a) Formal Causality......Page 434
(b) The Determinate Relation of Causality......Page 435
(c) Action and Reaction......Page 439
C. Reciprocity......Page 441
Conclusion......Page 446
PART VII SUBJECTIVITY......Page 448
19 The Notion......Page 450
A. The Universal Notion......Page 460
B. The Particular Notion......Page 464
C. The Individual......Page 469
20 Judgment......Page 474
A. The Judgment of Existence (Inherence)......Page 479
(a) The Positive Judgment......Page 481
(b) The Negative Judgment......Page 484
(c) The Infinite Judgment......Page 488
B. The Judgment of Reflection......Page 492
(a) The Singular Judgment......Page 493
(b) The Particular Judgment......Page 494
(c) The Universal Judgment......Page 495
C. The Judgment of Necessity......Page 497
(a) The Categorical Judgment......Page 498
(b) The Hypothetical Judgment......Page 499
(c) The Disjunctive Judgment......Page 501
(a) The Assertoric Judgment......Page 503
(b) The Problematic Judgment......Page 505
(c) The Apodeictic Judgment......Page 506
21 Syllogism......Page 510
A. The Syllogism of Existence......Page 512
(a) IPU......Page 513
(b) PIU......Page 515
(c) IUP......Page 517
(d) Mathematical Syllogism......Page 518
(a) The Syllogism of Allness......Page 520
(b) The Syllogism of Induction......Page 522
(c) The Syllogism of Analogy......Page 523
(a) The Categorical Syllogism......Page 527
(b) The Hypothetical Syllogism......Page 529
(c) The Disjunctive Syllogism......Page 532
PART VIII OBJECTTVITY......Page 536
22 Mechanism......Page 538
A. The Mechanical Object......Page 541
B. The Mechanical Process......Page 544
(a) The Formal Mechanical Process......Page 545
(b) The Real Mechanical Process......Page 547
(c) The Product of the Mechanical Process......Page 550
(a) The Center......Page 551
(b) Law......Page 553
(c) Transition of Mechanism......Page 554
23 Chemism......Page 556
A. The Chemical Object......Page 557
B. The Chemical Process......Page 558
C. Transition of Chemism......Page 561
24 Teleology......Page 562
A. Subjective End......Page 565
B. Means......Page 567
C. The Realized End......Page 568
PART IX IDEA......Page 576
25 Life......Page 578
A. The Living Individual......Page 579
B. The Life-Process......Page 582
C. Genus......Page 584
26 Cognition......Page 587
A. The Idea of the True......Page 591
(a) Analytic Cognition......Page 594
(b) Synthetic Cognition......Page 597
1. Definition......Page 598
3.Theorem......Page 602
B. The Idea of the Good......Page 603
27 Absolute Idea......Page 608
28 Conclusion......Page 619
Bibliography......Page 623
Index......Page 632
Appendix: The Steps of the Logic......Page 644