Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science Of Logic

863 Pages·2010·4.3 MB·English

by  Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, George Di Giovanni [Translator]

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
TheScienceofLogic
The purpose of the Cambridge Hegel Translations is to offer trans-
lations of the best modern German editions of Hegel’s work in a
uniformformatsuitableforHegelscholars,togetherwithphilosoph-
icalintroductionsandfulleditorialapparatus.
ThisnewtranslationofTheScienceofLogicbyG.W.F.Hegel(also
knownashisGreaterLogic)includesBookOne(revised1832),Book
Two(1813)ofVolumeOne,andVolumeTwo(1816).Recentresearch
has given us a detailed picture of the process that led Hegel to his
finalconceptionoftheSystemofPhilosophyandoftheplaceofthe
Logic within it. We now understand how and why Hegel distanced
himselffromSchelling,howradicalthisbreakwithhisearlymentor
was, and to what extent it entailed a return (but with a difference)
to Fichte and Kant. In the introduction to the volume, George di
Giovannipresentsinsynopticformtheresultsofrecentscholarship
onthesubject,and,whilerecognizingthefaultlinesinHegel’sSystem
that allow opposite interpretations, argues that the Logic marks the
endofclassicalmetaphysics.Thetranslationisaccompaniedbyafull
apparatusofhistoricalandexplanatorynotes.
george di giovanni isProfessorofPhilosophyatMcGillUni-
versity,Montreal.HispreviouspublicationsincludeFreedomandReli-
gioninKantandhisImmediateSuccessors:TheVocationofHumankind,
1774–1800 (Cambridge, 2005), Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the
Development of Post-Kantian Idealism (2000), and The Cambridge
EditionoftheWorksofImmanuelKant,VolVI:ReligionandRational
Theology(Cambridge,1996).
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TheScienceofLogic
EditedandtranslatedbyGeorgediGiovanni
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH
HEGEL
The Science of Logic
translated and edited by
GEORGE DI GIOVANNI
McGillUniversity
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INMEMORIAM
HENRYSILTONHARRIS
latefellowoftheRoyalCanadianAcademyoftheHumanities
scholar,philosopher,humanist,mentor,friend
m’insegnavatecomel’uoms’etterna:
equant’iol’abbiaingradomentr’iovivo
convienchenelamialinguasiscerna.
InfernoXV,85–87

Contents
Acknowledgments pageviii
Listofabbreviations ix
Introduction xi
Translator’snote lxiii
the science of logic 1
volume one
the objective logic 7
7
Prefacetothefirstedition
11
Prefacetothesecondedition
Introduction 23
book one: the doctrine of being 45
book two: the doctrine of essence 337
volume two
the science of subjective logic or the doctrine of
the concept 507
Appendix:Hegel’sLogicinitsrevisedandunrevisedparts 754
Bibliography 757
Index 777
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Acknowledgments
IwishtothankJohnBurbidge,MarinaBykova,DavidCarlson,andAngel-
icaNuzzo,allofwhomreadanearlierdraftofmyintroductoryessayand
madeinvaluablesuggestionsandoccasionalcorrections.ToDavidCarlson
I owe special thanks for having saved me from some egregious errors. I
am grateful to Cinzia Ferrini for having alerted me to the significance
of otherwise unobtrusive changes in the 1832 edition of Hegel’s text, and
must also acknowledge the debt that I owe to Antonio Moretto’s studies
onHegelandthemathematicsoftheinfinite.Thesestudieshaveprovided
important historical background for Hegel’s discussion of calculus that I
wouldhaveotherwisemissed.IthankMichaelBaur,theeditoroftheseries,
for many suggestions and corrections. How much indebted I am to the
scholarlylaboursofthelateH.S.Harrisshouldbeevidentfrommynotes.
Thistranslationisdedicatedtohismemory.
I wish to thank Anna Ezekiel, McGill doctoral student, for her much-
needed help in shaping an unwieldy script into presentable form and
for her truly heroic bibliographical work. Most of all, I thank Dr. Pierre
Chetelat,atonetimedoctoralstudentatMcGillandmyresearchassistant
for the past three years, for the care with which he read over the text
of the translation at various stages of production and made numerous
suggestions for improving style. Together with Anna, he also contributed
to the composition of many of the notes. He is solely responsible for the
Index.Iconsidermyselffortunatetohavehadsuchcapablecollaborators.
Iamofcourseresponsibleforanyerrors.
Theresearchassociatedwiththisworkwasmadepossiblebyagrantfrom
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Grant
Code: G206217) and further subsidized by the Fonds de recherche sur la
socie´te´etlaculture(Quebec).MeinerVerlaggraciouslygavepermissionto
enterinthemarginsthepaginationoftheircriticaledition.
george di giovanni
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Abbreviations
A–/B–=ImmanuelKant,CritiqueofPureReason,citedaccordingto
thepaginationofthe1781and1782editions(AandB).
AK=ImmanuelKant.GesammelteSchriften,ed.RoyalPrussianAcademy
oftheSciences(Berlin:Reimer,1902–),citedbyvolumeandpage
number.
GA=J.G.Fichte–GesamtausgabederbayerischenAkademieder
Wissenschaften,ed.R.LauthandH.Gliwitzky(Stuttgart-Bad
Cannstatt:Fromann-Holzboog,1962–2005),citedbyseriesnumber
inRomannumerals,volumenumber,pagination,andwhen
appropriatelinenumber.
GW=G.W.F.Hegel:GesammelteWerke,Deutsche
Forschungsgemainschaft(Hamburg:Meiner,1968–),citedby
volume,page,andwhenappropriatelinenumber.
Miller=Hegel’sScienceofLogic,trans.A.VMiller(London:Allen&
Unwin,1969).
Moni/Cesa=G.W.F.Hegel:ScienzadellaLogica,Vols.IandII,trans.
ArturoMoni(1924–25);revised,ClaudioCesa(Roma-Bari:Laterza,
2001).
Guyer/Wood=CritiqueofPureReason,trans.anded.PaulGuyerand
AllenWood(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1998).
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