Full Title of
Collected
Works
G. W. Fr.
Hegel
[1]
Collected Works of G. W. Fr.
Hegel
,
Vol. III (Berlin, 1833)
(468 pages)
“Complete
edition by
circle of
friends of
“
The Science of Logic.”
[2]
Part 1.
Objective Logic.
the deceased:
Marheineke,
Schulze,
Section 1. The Doctrine of
Being.
Gans, Hen-
(Bern: Log I. 175)
nin, Hotho,
Michelet,
Förster.”
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
Vol. III,
[3]
p. 5 — a
shrewd statement
about
        logic
: it is a “prejudice” that it ”teach-
es how to think”
        (just as physiology ”teaches
... to digest”??)
... “logical science, which is the true con-
tent of genuine metaphysics or pure spec-
ulative philosophy.... ” (6)
...“Philosophy cannot borrow its method
froma subordinate science, such as mathe-
matics....” (6-7)
...“But it can be only the nature of the
content which stirs in scientific cognition,
while at the same time it is this very
reflection of the content which itself ini-
tially posits and produces its determina-
tion.” (7)
(The
movement
of
	  scientific
cognition — that is the essential thing.)
“Understanding (Verstand) makes deter-
minations” (bestimmt), Reason (Ver-
nunft) is negative and dialectical because
it dissolves into nothing (“in Nichts auflöst”)
the determinations of Understanding. (7)
The combination of these two—“Reason
which understands or Understanding which
reasons”
(7)
=
	  the positive.
Negation of “the simple” ... “movement
of Mind ...”
(7)
(The “path of self-construction” = the
path
(this is the crux, in my  opinion) of
real cognition, of the process of cognising,
of movement from ignorance to knowledge.
[4]
The movement of consciousness,
“like
the development of all natural and
	  spiri-
tual life,”
rests on “the nature of the pure
This is char-
acteristic!
essentialities which make up the content
of Logic” (Natur der reinen Wessenheiten
[5]
).
Turn it round
: Logic and the theory
of knowledge must be derived from
“the development of all natural and
spiritual life”.
Up to here: preface to the First Edition.