An Analysis of a Metaphysical Thesis in Hegel's Science of Logic

FAIN: FT-13180-76

Martin J. De Nys
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)

To analyze that text in Hegel's Science of Logic which marks the transition from the second to the third and final section of that work, in order (a) to examine the unity of the work insofar as that unity depend upon this transition; (b) to refine a statement of the philosophical thesis of Hegel referred to; and, (c) to critically evaluate those arguments which Hegel develops in the analyzed text in support of that thesis. Hegel's Science of Logic, the central work of his philosophical system, is divided into three large sections. The transition from the second to the third section of this work is highly problematic and the textual details of this transition are far from clear--need for this study.