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[from 'Science of Logic' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual ]

Full Idea

In the course of (Hegel's) logic, we come to understand that to think being is to think becoming, quality, quantity, specificity, essence and existence, substance and causality, and, ultimately, self-determining reason itself.

Gist of Idea

Thought about being leads to a string of other concepts, like becoming, quantity, specificity, causality...

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 02 'The Method'

Book Reference

Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.38


A Reaction

Extraordinary! Houlgate spells out nicely what some commentators seem to gloss over, the huge a priori ambitions of Hegel's thought. I find his entire programme utterly implausible.