Book contents
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophy of Spirit and Hegel’s Philosophical System
- Part II Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
- Part III Philosophy of Objective Spirit
- Part IV Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Part I - Philosophy of Spirit and Hegel’s Philosophical System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2019
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophy of Spirit and Hegel’s Philosophical System
- Part II Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
- Part III Philosophy of Objective Spirit
- Part IV Philosophy of Absolute Spirit
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
The role played by Hegel’s Logic within those parts of his “Realphilosophie,” philosophy of nature and philosophy of spirit, is puzzling and controversial. In this essay, I argue against the idea that we should be able to understand his Logic as charting some entirely autonomous domain without any help from the areas of Realphilosophie that presuppose it. This mistake here I take to be a consequence of failing to heed Hegel’s demand that we understand the system of his Encyclopaedia as circular, moreover as containing “circles within circles” such that the circular structure is iterated into its parts, into the parts of those parts, and so on.
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- Hegel's Philosophy of SpiritA Critical Guide, pp. 9 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019