Hegel's Metaphysics of Being: An Ontological Reading of the Lesser" Logic" /

Hegel's Encyclopedia ("Lesser") Logic and its Additions represent his definitive work (1830) on fundamental ontology, whose goal is to deduce purposive nature, the subject of the subsequent book in Hegel's system, the Philosophy of Nature . While commentators have snubbed the &qu...

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Main Author: Reid, Jeffrey (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Critical Studies in German Idealism ; 37.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Call Number: PZ7.S588

Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Textual Considerations
  • Introduction: Logic as Fundamental Ontology
  • Preconception ( Vorbegriff ): Metaphysical Preconceptions of the Day and the Need for Speculative Philosophy
  • Preconception 1: the Reality of Thought
  • Preconception 2: the First Position of Thought toward Objectivity: Pre-critical Metaphysics
  • Preconception 3: Second Position of Thought toward Objectivity: Empiricism and Criticism
  • Preconception 4: the Third Position of Thought toward Objectivity: Immediate Knowing
  • More Precise Conception (Closer Concept) and Division of the Logic
  • 1 Objective Logic
  • Being and Essence
  • 1 The Doctrine of Being
  • 1.1 Being as Quality
  • 1.2 Being as Quantity
  • 1.3 Being as Measure
  • 2 The Doctrine of Essence
  • 2.1 Essence as Ground of Existence Determinations of Reflection: Identity, Difference and Existing Things
  • 2.2 Essence as Phenomenon: Relations of Meaningful Appearance
  • 2.3 Essence as Actuality: the World as We've Come to Know It
  • 2 Subjective Logic
  • Enlivening Being
  • 1 The Doctrine of the Concept
  • 1.1 The Subjective Concept
  • 1.2 The Concept as Object
  • 1.3 The Idea: Life and Thought
  • 3 The Absolute Idea
  • A Concluding Disclosure
  • Bibliography
  • index.