Minor Philological Note

First English translation of Hegel's Science of Logic.

This post identifies a reference to the Phenomenology of Spirit in Hegel's Science of Logic from the original editions.

Philological Note: The Science of Logic

In the penultimate section of the Science of Logic (Volume III, 1816, 366) on the Idea of the Good, Hegel refers back to the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) for the "complete elaboration of the unresolved contradiction between that absolute purpose and the limitation of this reality insuperably opposed to it". As there are now several German editions of both books, with five English translations of the Phenomenology and three of the Science of Logic, the page references may be unclear. 

The 1816 edition of Science of Logic is available online and refers on page 366 to page 548ff of the Phenomenology:

First German edition of Wissenschaft der Logik (Vol III, 1816).

This is the start of the “Mind conscious of itself: Morality” section of the first edition of the Phenomenology (1807), which was the only edition that existed in 1816. Hence the reference is essentially to chapter 6C of the Phenomenology:

First edition of the Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807).

However, in di Giovanni’s translation of the Science of Logic (Cambridge: UP, 2010), the reference is given to "Phenomenology of Spirit (pp. 323ff)", with a footnote stating incorrectly that this is to the 1807 edition of the Phenomenology. In fact, di Giovanni's page reference is that of Meiner's Gesammelte Werke (GW). It corresponds to the start of chapter 6C of the Phenomenology in the pagination of the six-volume Hauptwerke, the more affordable version of GW. Di Giovanni adds "cf GW 9, 210ff": this is five paragraphs into the "Virtue and the Way of the World" section of chapter 5 of the Phenomenology in the complete GW. This pagination does not match any English edition of the Phenomenology.

The Johnson & Struthers translation (1929) refers to page 610 of the Baillie translation (1st edition 1910).  The Miller translation refers correctly to chapter 6C of Baillie's translation of the Phenomenology (2nd edition 1931, reissued 1967).

Chapter 6C of the Phenomenology does indeed contain discussions of the moral world view, its contradictions and dangers. Hegel's reference thus ties the final ethical standpoint of the Phenomenology into the conclusion of the subjective Logic.