In the Introduction to his 1817 Encyclopedia, Hegel tells us that philosophy as a whole can be understood as “the science of freedom” (¶ 5).  In this paper, I consider what Hegel could mean in describing one branch of his system, the logic, as the science of freedom.  It is not obvious what this purely theoretical science has to do with freedom, at least if we associate freedom with human action.  I argue that, in common with the other two branches of his encyclopedic system, Hegel’s Logic can be characterized as “the science of freedom” because it shares features he associates with the nature of free subjectivity.  In particular, I focus on his account of how thought develops and is capable of generating its own form.