Hegel’s Dialectic

1 Subject Matter.- 2 Relevance.- 3 The Fate of Hegel Interpretations.- 3.1 Dialectical Materialists.- 3.2 Dialectical Idealism.- 3.3 Criticism by Formal Logicians.- 3.4 Old-Hegelians and Later Interpreters.- 4 Divisions.- I / Dialectic.- 1 / Dialectic of the Real.- 1.1 Unity and Main Theme of the Dialectic.- 1.2 Negative Dialectic.- 1.3 The Presupposition of Dialectical Method: Idealist Individuation.- 2 / Positive Dialectic.- 2.1 Hegel’s Dialectic and Its Origin.- 2.11 ‘Dialectic’, ‘Dialectician’.- 2.111 Heraclitus and the Eleatics.- 2.112 Plato and the Sophists.- 2.113 From Aristotle to Kant.- 2.12 Criticism, Sophistry, Dialectic.- 2.13 The Circle of Being, the Most Abstract Form of the Dialectic.- 2.131 Technical Description.- 2.132 Presuppositions.- 2.133 Interpretation.- 2.14 Idealist ‘Exposition’ of the Absolute.- 2.2 From Subjective to Objective Idealism.- 2.21 Subject-K-F-H.- 2.22 Argumentation with Kant.- 2.221 The ‘Impulse from Outside’ and Immanence.- 2.222 The Method for Knowing the Unconditioned.- 2.2221 Kant’s Criticism of Metaphysics.- 2.2222 Dialectical Illusion.- 2.2223 The Significance of Critical Philosophy.- 2.23 Argumentation with Fichte.- 2.231 Identity in the Science of Knowledg?.- 2.232 Identity and Separation in Hegel’s Dialectic.- 2.2321 Identity and Separation in the Subject-Side-H.- 2.2322 Identity and Separation in the Object-Side-H.- 2.3 Intro-Reflection as the Essence of Self-Movement.- 2.31 The Expressions’ Self-Movement’ and ‘Intro-Reflection’.- 2.32 Determinations of Reflection.- 2.33 Intro-Reflection as the Nature of the Absolute Essence and as the Essence of Dialectical Method.- 3 / The Subject Matter of Dialectical Philosophy.- 3.1 Dialectic and the Starting-Point of Philosophy.- 3.2 The’ Soul’ of Dialectical Movement.- 3.21 Possibility of a Dialectical Logic.- First Interpretation: Hegelian Contradictions are Objective.- Second Interpretation: Modification of the Requirement of Non-Contradiction.- Third Interpretation: No Restriction of the Principle of Non-Contradiction.- 3.22 Hegel’s Theory of Contradiction.- 3.221 KpN? as Determinately Being.- 3.222 Sublation.- 3.2221 Logical Sublation.- 3.2222 Spatial and Temporal Sublation.- 3.2223 The Non-Contradictory Whole.- 3.223 Knowledge of the Understanding that Is Free from Contradiction.- 3.2231 Human and Absolute Understanding.- 3.2232 Dialectic and Knowledge of Facts.- 3.2233 Dialectic and Natural Science.- 3.2234 Dialectic and Formal Logic: Truth and Correctness.- 3.2235 Dialectic and Its Justification.- 3.2236 Ex falso sequitur quodlibet.- 3.3 The Goal of Dialectical Method.- 3.31 The System.- 3.32 The Development of the Absolute and the Development of the System.- II / Dialectic And Metaphysics.- 1 / ‘Metaphysics’ — A Philosophical Discipline.- 1.1 ‘Metaphysics’.- 1.2 The Logi? is a Metaphysics.- 1.21 The Metaphysical Content of the Logi?.- 1.22 Why Does Hegel Call His Metaphysics ‘Logic’?.- 1.221 Kant’s Influence.- 1.222 ‘Logic’ - ‘Logo?’.- 1.223 The Metaphysical is Logical.- 1.224’ Sublation’ of Metaphysics of Being into Logic.- 1.225 The Demythologizing of Metaphysics.- 1.23 Does Dialectical Metaphysics Replace Formal Logic?.- 1.231 ‘Ordinary Logic’.- 1.232 ‘Formal Logic’.- 1.233 Hegel’s Logic Is a Metaphysics of Being, and a Metaphysics of Knowledge Based Thereon.- 1.3 Hegel’s Entire System Is a Metaphysics.- 2 / Metaphysical Method in General.- 2.1 Positive Elements in the Method of Metaphysics of the Understanding.- 2.11 The ‘View of the Understanding’.- 2.12 Epistemological Realism.- 2.13 The Idea In-and-for-itself.- 2.2 Criticism of the Method of Metaphysics of the Understanding.- 2.21 ‘The Dead Product of Enlightenment’.- 2.22 Dependency on Imagination.- 2.23 Mathematical Metaphysics.- 2.24 Dogmatism.- 2.25 ‘Inferences of the Understanding’.- 2.26 Univocal Conception of Being.- 2.27 Multiplicity of Proofs.- 3 / Spinoza and Double Negation.- 3.1 Determinatio est negatio.- 3.2 Positio est negatio.- 3.3 Negation as Contradiction.- 3.4 Double Negation.- 3.5 Ambivalence of Spinoza’s Position.- 3.6 Substance and Thought.- III / Dialectical Metaphysics.- 1 / Infinity.- 1.1 The Finite and the Infinite.- 1.2 The ‘Bad’ Infinite.- 1.21 Infinity as Perennial Ought.- 1.22 Dualistic Infinity.- 1.23 The Bad and Untrue.- 1.3 True Infinity.- 1.31 The Finite Is Sublated.- 2 / Absolute Necessity.- 2.1 Accidentally and Necessity.- 2.2 Absolute Actuality.- 2.3 Substantiality and Causality.- 2.31 ‘The Substance’.- 2.32 Causal Relationship.- 2.33 The Sublation of Metaphysics.- 3 / Being is Thought.- 3.1 The Sum Total of All Realities.- 3.11 The Subjective Concept.- 3.12 The Metaphysical Concept.- 3.121 The Identity in the Metaphysics of the Understanding.- 3.122 The Critical Non-Identity.- 3.123 Dialectical Identity and Non-Identity.- 3.13 ‘The Derivation of the Real’.- 3.2 The Idea of Life.- 3.21 External Purposiveness.- 3.22 Internal Purposiveness.- 3.23 The Speculative Death.- 3.3 Teleology.- 3.31 Absolute Spirit.- 3.32 Absolute and Finite Spirit: Freedom.- 3.33 All of Hegel’s Dialectic Is Teleological.- Summary.- Epilogue / Hegel’s Dialectic and Contemporary Issues.- 1 Analytic and Dialectic.- 2 The Sublation of Hegel’s Dialectic.- 2.1 First Reversion.- 2.2 Second Reversion.- 2.3 Third Reversion.- 2.4 Fourth Reversion.- Concerning Notes And Abbreviations.- Notes.- Index of Names.