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Hegel Science of Logic

21 - 41 The speculative is the most important aspect of dialectic.

21 - 45 Logic was defined as the science of pure thought the science that has pure nowledge for its

principle and is a unit! which is not a"stract "ut living and concrete# so that the opposition of

consciousness "etween a "eing su"$ectivel! e%isting for itself# and another "ut o"$ectivel! e%isting such"eing# has "een overcome in it# and "eing is nown to "e in itself a pure concept and the pure concept

to "e true "eing.

The su"$ect and o"$ect are distinct# "ut do not e%ist for themselves for this reason their unit! is not

a"stract# dead and inert# "ut concrete.

The earl! determinations of the concept &earl! as in along the pathwa! to truth'# "! which these

determinations e%isted for themselves# are now in their truth# that is# in their unit!# reduced to forms.

21 4(f The o"$ective logic taes the place of ontolog! &a species of metaph!sics'. The o"$ective logic

is genuinel! critical )a criti*ue that considers +determinations of thought,# not according to the

a"stract form of the a priorias contrasted with the a posteriori +there"! maing use of the worlduncriticall!,# "ut in themselves according to their particular content.

21 55 The idea has a determination that has "ecome truth it has interioried the su"$ect matter that

would otherwise have stood over against certaint! as something e%ternal it is its su"$ect-matter# and isnowingl! aware that it is. /t is also not opposed to o"$ectivit! &which# if opposed# would reduce

o"$ectivit! to a nullit!' )/t has e%ternalied this su"$ectivit! and is at one with its e%ternaliation

21 50 ould !ou rather that we presuppose nothing /t is the same as presupposing "eing. &Theopposite of nothing is notsomething# it is "eing'

21 53f hat are we to mae of the sa!ing that science is a circle of circles That a"solute truth must

"e a result# and developed from a "eginning that is onl! proved &"ewhren' bythe result to "e the"eginning ofthe result rogression in philosoph! is a retreat into the ground# the inner truth.

6t the end of its development# a"solute truthfreely e%ternalies itself and taes its result as a principle

of a reversed development.57 ith what must a science "egin ure "eing is the unit! into which pure nowledge returns.

(4f. 8aco"i# despite himself# must thin "ecoming in his attempt to polemicie against the alleged

nullit! of 9antian pure "eing &the simple immediate of the in-itself'.(0 :ecause "eing is posited as immediate# the nothing onl! "reas out in it immediatel!.

To a"stract from ever!thing is tae what the! all have in common "eing. :ut ever!thing also has

nothing in common. 6nd so nothing is a"stracted; it is ineffa"le.

73 ?Something@ is the first negation of negation it is simple self-reference. /t su"lates its

distinguishedness "etween determinac! and *ualit!. /t is the existing distinction "etween realit! andnegation. Thus#somethingis the mediation of itself with itself for it is a negative determination# and

it determines itself negativel! from this determination. The mediation isposited.

/t is mediation of itself with itself. The mediation with itself is what ?something@ is in itself.1=4 Something simpl! is it has no concrete sides. /t $ust is something there must "e an other to its

simple position.

?nothing@ is determined as the negative of something an other.


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Something is an alteration"etween itself in itself and its other a transition.

1=0 Aow# let@s loo at this other. e could sa!# "! an e%ternal reflection# that something and other are

"asicall! the same# since ever! other is a something. :ut# then again# the other with reference to asomething is alsofor itself other apart from the something. /f the other is taen a"stractl!# it is that

which-e%ists-outside-itself# the other within. h!sical nature &is this not a pleonasm Ao it is space#

time# matter'.The other which isfor itself is the other within.

1=7 The Thing-in-itself is the result of a"straction from all "eing-for-other# which is an integral

moment of what something is. The thing-in-itself designates a thing without an! determination &"eing-for-other'# and thus a nothing.

The Logic does 9ant one "etter rather than wondering what is in the thing-in-itself# the Logic e%poses

what something is in its concept.11( Binitude is the most o"stinate categor! of the understanding the understanding that imposes

negativit! upon all its determinations# and can onl! operate "! sticing to its negative one-sidedness.

The non-"eing of what is understood does not perish# it endures# it is a"solute. To the understanding#

finitude is eternal. ):ut that the finite is a"solute is certainl! not a standpoint that an! philosoph! oroutloo# or the understanding# would want to endorse. /n fact# it is a contradictor! endorsement#

"ecause the finite cannot "e the imperisha"le it is $ust finite# after all.

Coes Heidegger want to endorse finitude117 The in-itself of something as its determination# when it taes its cue from negating the restriction of

something# is the ought. The in-itselfness of the something transcends the limit alread! an inasmuch

as the determination of something has a limit for its side# something transcends itself.


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which is concrete and speculative and the true is concrete. 6 $udgment is one-sided on a count of its

form &This su"$ect is that predicate' and to that e%tent false. The o"$ect# in this case# is not allowed to

freel! determine itself from out of itself "ut taen as something read!-made to which predicates are

affi%ed.Sec. 2(D Food infinit!# "ad infinit! &)!onder and ever !onder' and infinite thought &as well as finite

thought'. The idealit! of thining is at home in its going "e!ond limited thought determinations

infinite nowing nows to loo "e!ond the finite# for it taes its own nowing as the o"$ect ofnowledge.

Sec >1D Cogmatism is the assumption that given two opposite assertions# one must "e true while the

other is false. Cogmatism engages the world through an eitherGor schema &non-speculative'.Sec. 4(D The antinom! occurs in all o"$ects of all inds.

Sec. (1D What ever!thing finite is# is its own su"lation. 6 self-su"lation. /t must show its own

restrictedness as what it is which re*uires a dialectical immanent transcending. There is a thing

whatis the thing /t must su"late its simplicit!.

Sec (2D hilosoph! deals e%clusivel! with concrete thoughts. hat is concrete ositivel!

determinate# first of all. Truth is not a"stract nothingness "ut instead the negation of definite

determinations creats a result a result that is not an immediate nothing. Truth is not a simple formalunit!# "ut a unit! of distinctdeterminations. 6 record of these determinations# affirmed in speculative

sentences# maes up ordinar! logic.

Sec (>D h! does Hegel "egin with the untrue &immediate "eing'# and not with the true &thespeculative and positivel! rational' straight awa! The answer to this is that the truth has toprove

&"ewhren' itself precisel! to "e the truth# and here# within the logical sphere# the proof consists in the

concept demonstrating itself to "e mediated through and with itself and there"! also as what is trul!immediate.

Sec ((D :eing and nothing are the opposite in its complete immediacy. 6ll other opposites are

mediated "! some determination or other that would contain a relation "etween the two opposites.

There is a determination that :eing and Aothing have which is that the! are "oth thesame. /f thea"solute is "eing# then it is also nothing "ut nothing immediatel! vanishes into "eing# and so "eing

nothing must "e# in some wa!# distinguished insofar as the! are the same.

4 6s the unit! of "eing and nothing# "ecoming is the true e%pression of the result of "eingand nothing. /t is not onl! the unit! of "eing and nothing # "ut the unrest in itself . . . it is within itself

against itself on account of the difference of "eing and nothing contained in it.

Sec 72D That tran*uil "eing-at-rest# at peace# is in truth unrest# and going "e!ond its "oundar!. To "edeterminate is to have a negation as the other to what something is in itself.

Sec 75 Something comes together onl! with itself in its transition into something other# and this

relation to itself in its transition and in the other is the true infinit!.Sec 70 /ntensive magnitudes and e%tensive magnitudes are two moments of the same degree-character

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Being is a false start to the Logic &'. Science trul! "egins with becoming. /t seems that the

culmination of science would "e a pure affirmation of "eing# and we are going to proveGvalidate this

principle "! watching it concretel! develop into itself "ut# though the Logic in fact commences with


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"eing# this lead-off consideration is onl! a matter of e%ternal structure# which trul! departs from

becoming. Aothing and "eing are "oth arrived at through each other# and are contained within

"ecoming.

:eing Aothing set the tone for all that follows the nature of their unification# a tenuous# restless

and vanishingl! tena"le tension casts a mood# or a principle# upon Hegel@s wor. There is a moment of

negation and affirmation in all of realit!. 6 thing alwa!s is in opposition this unit! of opposites is there*uirement for concreteness.

ure thought# although ver"all! e*uated with "eing# is proven to "e in truth becoming. 9ant looedtoward the conditions for the possi"ilit! of a pre$udicial form of e%perience &identical "eing'# without

sta!ing true to the actualityof that ver! e%perience. /n actualit!# there is activit!# and those concepts

which remained !oed to a pre$udice &vi# "eing G nothing' are proven to "e in actualit! "ecoming.Coes ?"eing@ still hold swa!# in a su"terranean fashion# "! remaining the o"$ect of desire for our

scientific s!stem-"uilding That is# onl! the dashed eagerness to understand "eing gives wa! to

meditative confirmation that becomingonl! could "e the true principle. ould "ecoming "e located if

it weren@t for the pre$udicial preference for "eing

Hegel@s translator goesD )e are concerned here e%clusivel! with the consciousness of these

"eginnings# namel! that the! are nothing "ut these empt! a"stractions and that each of them is as empt!as the other. The driveto find in "eing or in "oth a fi%ed meaning is the ver! necessity that e%pands

+weiterfKhrt, "eing and nothing and gives them a true# ie concrete meaning &Sec. (3'

The a"stract immediate# "eing# perhaps a clue or *uestion latent at the "eginning of all consciousness

and the originar! thinking it overproduces the truly immediate. The true has to prove itself

&"ewahren' precisel! to "e the truth# and here #within the logical sphere# the proof consists in the

concept demonstrating itself to "e mediated through and with itself and there"! also as what is trul!immediate &sec (> ad.'.

e "egin with one-sided "eing that# although a"solutel! mediated# must "e taen as immediate "ecauseif it was taen to "e alread! mediated it would "e alread! carried further than itself which is not the

nature of a "eginning. Ceterminate things have the character of an other with respect to a first.

! trou"le lies in whether the a"stract idea of "eing is a clue Hegel could not "egin without# and in

that respect# ?"ecoming@ is derivative. Mes it seems so. :eing is the "eginning# not nothing. Aothing

gets nowhere. ith :eing as the "eginning# there is the lingering commitment to hold on to"eing as itpasses over into nothing "ecoming is the return to being# not to nothing# for "ecoming unfolds into

existence.

hat is ?necessit!@ if it issues from a drive This would "e a necessit! that isspontaneous# andtherefore it would appear from out of its inner ground as# to e%ternal o"servation# contingent.

The "eginning shows the necessit! of determinateness. ):ecoming is the first concrete thought &

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