The Logic of Hegel

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES IN OUTLINE is the third in time of the four works which Hegel published. It was preceded by the _Phenomenology of Spirit,_ in 180...

1.] PHILOSOPHY misses an advantage enjoyed by the other sciences. It cannot like them rest the existence of its objects on the natural admissions of consciousness, nor can it as...

This definition, and the others which occur in these introductory outlines, are derived from a survey of the whole system, to which accordingly they are subsequent. The same rem...

28.] The first of these attitudes of thought is seen in the method which has no doubts and no sense of the contradiction in thought, or of the hostility of thought against itsel...

37.] Under these circumstances a double want began to be felt. Partly it was the need of a concrete subject-matter, as a counterpoise to the abstract theories of the understandi...

61.] If we are to believe the Critical philosophy, thought is subjective, and its ultimate and invincible mode is _abstract universality_ or formal identity. Thought is thus set...

79.] In point of form Logical doctrine has three sides: (α) the Abstract side, or that of understanding: (_ß_) the Dialectical, or that of negative reason: (y) the Speculative,...

84.] Being is the notion implicit only: its special forms have the predicate 'is'; when they are distinguished they are each of them an 'other': and the shape which dialectic ta...

112.] The terms in Essence are always mere pairs of correlatives, and not yet absolutely reflected in themselves: hence in essence the actual unity of the notion is not realised...

(as a man, a character), and at the same time it is possible only where the conditions are and the fact, (ß) It is the movement which translates the conditions into fact, and th...

160.] The Notion is the principle of freedom, the power of substance self-realised. It is a systematic whole, in which each of its constituent functions is the very total which...

P. 8, § 3. Cf. Fichte, _Werke_, ii. 454: 'Hence for the common sort of hearers and readers the uncommon intelligibility of certain sermons and lectures and writings, not one wor...

P. 31, § 19. Truth:--as early as _Werke,_ i. 82, _i.e._ 1801, Hegel had come--perhaps influenced by the example of Jacobi--to the conclusion that 'Truth is a word which, in phil...

P. 61, § 28. Fichte--to emphasise the experiential truth of his system--says (_Werke,_ ii. 331): 'There was a philosophy which professed to be able to expand by mere _inference_...

P. 80, § 38. The verses (forming part of the advice which Mephistopheles, personating Faust, gives to the recently-arrived pupil) stand in the original in a different order: beg...

P. 121, § 62. F. H. Jacobi (_Werke,_ v. 82) in his _Woldemar_ (a romance contained in a series of letters, first published _as a whole_ in 1781) writes: 'The philosophical under...

Such 'limitation' of aim and work is a frequent lesson in _Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre, e.g._ i. ch. 4. 'Many-sidedness prepares, properly speaking, only the element in which...

P. 156, § 85. The Absolute. The term, in something like its modern usage, is at least as old as Nicolaus Cusanus. God, according to him, is the _absoluta omnium quidditas (Apol....

P. 213, § 115. The 'laws of thought' is the magniloquent title given in the Formal Logic since Kant's day to the principles or maxims (_principia_, Grundsätze) which Kant himsel...

Page 289, § 161. Evolution and development in the stricter sense in which these terms were originally used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imply a theory of preforma...