Book contents
- Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics
- Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “Irrational Cognition of the Rational”
- Chapter 2 The Ontological Proof as “the True Critique of the Categories and of Reason”
- Chapter 3 Hegel’s Critique of “the Former Metaphysics”
- Chapter 4 Hegel’s Response to Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics
- Chapter 5 Logical Contradiction and Real Opposition
- Chapter 6 Mediated Immediacy: Concept, Judgment and Syllogism
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 7 - Conclusion
A Circle of Circles: Analysis, Synthesis, Dialectic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2023
- Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics
- Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “Irrational Cognition of the Rational”
- Chapter 2 The Ontological Proof as “the True Critique of the Categories and of Reason”
- Chapter 3 Hegel’s Critique of “the Former Metaphysics”
- Chapter 4 Hegel’s Response to Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics
- Chapter 5 Logical Contradiction and Real Opposition
- Chapter 6 Mediated Immediacy: Concept, Judgment and Syllogism
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
A truly self-standing science grasps not only its subject matter but also itself. As we saw in earlier chapters, formal logic, both in Aristotle and in Kant, does not meet this standard, according to Hegel. It has presuppositions, chief among them psychological ones, it cannot itself validate. This chapter interprets the final sections of Hegel's logic as resolving this problem of self-comrpehension and explains how it concludes Hegel's struggle to overcome the logocentric predicament.
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- Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics , pp. 236 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023