Haym's Defection from the Hegelian Logic

French translation of Hegel und seine Zeit (1857).

This is an analysis of Rudolf Haym’s clear-sighted lecture on Hegel's Science of Logic from his classic book Hegel and His Time (1857). 

The Absolute Idea (Part Three)

First English translation of Hegel's Science of Logic (1929).

In this last of our three posts on the Absolute Idea section of Hegel's Science of Logic (1816), we discuss the idea of philosophical system, the relation of logical categories to the concrete sciences, and the notion of creation. 

The Absolute Idea (Part Two)

First English edition of Science of Logic (1929)

In this post, we discuss the paragraphs on the method of logic dealing with beginning and development from the Absolute Idea section of Hegel's Science of Logic (1816).

The Absolute Idea (Part One)

First English edition of Hegel's Science of Logic (1929).

This is the first of three posts analysing Hegel's essay on the "Absolute Idea" in his Science of Logic (1816), in which he addresses the method of logical science in general and its place in his philosophical system.

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.

Hegel on Teleology and Life

Teleology in action: plants strive for the sunlight in Queensland, Australia.    

This post analyses Hegel’s view of teleology, or apparent purpose in nature, in his Science of Logic.

Hegel on the Concept in General (Part Two)

First English translation of Hegel's Science of Logic (1929).

This concluding post (of two) on Hegel's essay on "The Concept in General" from the Science of Logic relates his view of reason to the idea of self-consciousness drawn from Kant's critical philosophy.

Hegel on the Concept in General (Part One)

The first English translation of Hegel's Science of Logic (1929).

 This post is the first part of two analysing the essay on "The Concept in General" from Hegel's Science of Logic (1812-16).

Review of David Charlston's Translation and Hegel's Philosophy

Here is our review of David Charlston's recent book, Translation and Hegel's Philosophy (Abingdon, NY: Routledge, 2020).

Hegel in Berlin (Part Three)

 

This is my concluding entry on Hegel's life, drawing from Rosenkranz's Hegels Leben (1844), the first biography of Hegel. I describe Hegel's final words on politics and falling out with Edouard Gans, his last sudden illness and death and the life of his sister.

Brief notes on the Science of Logic

 

These are my notes from the brief chapter on Hegel's Science of Logic in Karl Rosenkranz' Life of Hegel (1844). This gave rise to an interesting exchange of views on the Hegel-list on the nature of the Logic, which we concluded was a logic of experience-as-a-whole rather than a pure development of abstract concepts (as my version of Rosenkranz suggested) or a deceptive removal of layers of abstraction to return to a common sense view of the world (as alleged by Friedrich Trendelenberg and Andrew Seth later in the 19th century).