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Science of Logic
Being, nothing, becoming: the self-movement of concepts.
Introduction
Hegel wrote the Science of Logic while headmaster of a grammar school in Nuremberg. It appeared in three books: the doctrine of being (1812), of essence (1813) and of the concept (1816), the first two forming the “objective”, the third the “subjective” logic. Logic here is not a set of rules for correct reasoning but the development of the basic determinations of thought, which are at the same time those of reality; Hegel calls it the presentation of God as he is in his eternal essence before the creation of nature. He revised the first book shortly before his death in 1831. A shorter version forms the first part of his Encyclopaedia.
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Connections
Builds on
- Parmenidesc. 370 BCE · Plato
Criticizes
- Critique of Pure Reason1781 · Immanuel Kant
Taken up in
- Capital1867 · Karl Marx
- The Theory of Mind as Pure Act1916 · Giovanni Gentile
- The Sublime Object of Ideology1989 · Slavoj Žižek
- Less Than Nothing2012 · Slavoj Žižek
Criticized in
- Concluding Unscientific Postscript1846 · Søren Kierkegaard
- What Is Living and What Is Dead of the Philosophy of Hegel1907 · Benedetto Croce
- Nietzsche and Philosophy1962 · Gilles Deleuze
- Negative Dialectics1966 · Theodor W. Adorno
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