Ideas from 'Logic (Encyclopedia I)' by Georg W.F.Hegel [1817], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Logic (from Encyclopaedia)' by Hegel,Georg W.F. (ed/tr Wallace,W. /Finlay,J.N.) [OUP 1975,0-19-824512-2]].
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent
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True philosophy aims at absolute unity, while our understanding sees only separation
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
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Free thinking has no presuppositions
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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The ideal of reason is the unification of abstract identity (or 'concept') and being
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Older metaphysics naively assumed that thought grasped things in themselves
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Logic is metaphysics, the science of things grasped in thoughts
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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
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We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason
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Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
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Categories create objective experience, but are too conditioned by things to actually grasp them
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
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If truth is just non-contradiction, we must take care that our basic concepts aren't contradictory
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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Dialectic is the moving soul of scientific progression, the principle which binds science together
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Dialectic is seen in popular proverbs like 'pride comes before a fall'
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Socratic dialectic is subjective, but Plato made it freely scientific and objective
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Older metaphysics became dogmatic, by assuming opposed assertions must be true and false
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth
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Superficial truth is knowing how something is, which is consciousness of bare correctness
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
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In Hegel's logic it is concepts (rather than judgements or propositions) which are true or false [Scruton]
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 7. Falsehood
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In the deeper sense of truth, to be untrue resembles being bad; badness is untrue to a thing's nature
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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The deeper sense of truth is a thing matching the idea of what it ought to be
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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle
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Excluded middle is the maxim of definite understanding, but just produces contradictions
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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 3. Antinomies
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The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea
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Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world
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Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas
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7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories
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Even simple propositions about sensations are filled with categories
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Thought about particulars is done entirely through categories
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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The one substance is formless without the mediation of dialectical concepts
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Essence is the essential self-positing unity of immediacy and mediation
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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Real cognition grasps a thing from within itself, and is not satisfied with mere predicates
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
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The Cogito is at the very centre of the entire concern of modern philosophy
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism
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Existence is just a set of relationships
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception
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The sensible is distinguished from thought by being about singular things
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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Sense perception is secondary and dependent, while thought is independent and primitive
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
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Empiricism made particular knowledge possible, and blocked wild claims
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Empiricism contains the important idea that we should see knowledge for ourselves, and be part of it
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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Empiricism unknowingly contains and uses a metaphysic, which underlies its categories
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Empiricism of the finite denies the supersensible, and can only think with formal abstraction
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The Humean view stops us thinking about perception, and finding universals and necessities in it
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 2. Types of Scepticism
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Humean scepticism, unlike ancient Greek scepticism, accepts the truth of experience as basic
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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In abstraction, beyond finitude, freedom and necessity must exist together
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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The act of thinking is the bringing forth of universals
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 2. Categories of Understanding
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Hegel's system has a vast number of basic concepts [Moore,AW]
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
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We don't think with concepts - we think the concepts
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Active thought about objects produces the universal, which is what is true and essential of it
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Old metaphysics tried to grasp eternal truths through causal events, which is impossible
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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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If God is the abstract of Supremely Real Essence, then God is a mere Beyond, and unknowable
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The older conception of God was emptied of human features, to make it worthy of the Infinite
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God is the absolute thing, and also the absolute person
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
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We establish unification of the Ideal by the ontological proof, deriving being from abstraction of thinking
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