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Chapter 3 - Essence in Hegel’s Encyclopedia and Science of Logic

The Problem of Form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2021

By
Stephen Houlgate
Edited by
Sebastian Stein  and
Joshua Wretzel
Sebastian Stein
Affiliation:
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Joshua Wretzel
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

This chapter examines the principal differences between the Encylcopaedia Logic (EL) and the larger Science of Logic (SL). It will focus especially on the section on “essence” in which the categories are ordered in a somewhat different way from the way they are ordered in the SL. The chapter will consider whether these differences are just due to the different aims of the EL and SL, or whether Hegel develops an altogether new conception of essence in the EL.

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HegelG. W. F.essencelogicform
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Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
A Critical Guide
 , pp. 46 - 67
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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