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• Bedingung / Sache an sich (Condition / The Thing Itself, Hegel)

  Bedingung (condition) and Sache an sich (the thing itself) are the paired transitional categories that bridge Grund and Existenz in the Erster Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5180–5263). The cardinal formulation: "wenn alle…

• Blind vs. Manifested Necessity (Hegel)

  The distinction between blind and manifested necessity is Hegel's signature account of the necessity-passes-into-freedom doctrine, located in the closing pages of the Dritter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 6131–6168, with…

• Erscheinung (Appearance, Hegel)

  Erscheinung — appearance — is the second moment of the Zweyter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5466–5635), positioned between Existenz (and the Ding-doctrine) and wesentliches Verhältnis. Hegel's cardinal thesis: "Das Wesen…

• Existenz (Existence, Hegel)

  Existenz — existence — is the first category of the Zweyter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5266–5306). Existenz is mediated immediacy that has come forth from Grund: not a property of Wesen but Wesen's externalization, the…

• Gegensatz (Opposition, Hegel)

  Gegensatz — opposition (positive / negative) — is the third of the four Reflexionsbestimmungen in the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4724 ff.). Gegensatz introduces positive and negative as moments that each contain the other: positive is…

• Gesetz der Erscheinung (Law of Appearance, Hegel)

  The Gesetz der Erscheinung — law of appearance — is a sub-doctrine of the Erscheinung-section of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5488–5544). Hegel's cardinal characterization: a Newtonian-style law (e.g., spaces traversed in fall as squ…

• Grund (Ground / Sufficient Reason, Hegel)

  Grund — ground, sufficient reason — is the third and closing chapter of the Erster Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4924–5263). Grund is what remains when the four Reflexionsbestimmungen (Identität → Verschiedenheit → Gegens…

• Identität (Identity, Hegel)

  Identität is the first of the four Reflexionsbestimmungen in the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4574–4634). Hegel's cardinal thesis: "Die Identität ist also an ihr selbst absolute Nichtidentität" (raw 4598) — identity at itself is absolute…

• Modal Triad (Wirklichkeit / Möglichkeit / Notwendigkeit, Hegel)

  The modal triad — Wirklichkeit (actuality), Möglichkeit (possibility), Notwendigkeit (necessity) — structures the central chapter of the Dritter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5851–6131). Each term is a categorial moment,…

• Reflexion (Hegel)

  Hegel's Reflexion — the engine of the entire Doctrine of Essence — is not a subjective comparison-and-generalization activity (Kantian reflection) nor introspection (Cartesian-Lockean). It is an ontological structure of Wesen itself: "abso…

• Reflexionsbestimmungen (Reflection-Determinations)

  The four Reflexionsbestimmungen of difference — Identität, Verschiedenheit, Gegensatz, Widerspruch — form a single graded sequence in which difference deepens until it becomes contradiction, and contradiction dissolves into Grund. Located…

• Schein (Semblance / Show, Hegel)

  Schein — semblance, show, illusion — is the second category of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4344–4378), positioned between Wesen-as-such and Reflexion. Hegel's cardinal thesis: "Der Schein ist das eigene Setzen des Wesens" (raw 4308…

• Setzen / Voraussetzen (Positing / Presupposing, Hegel)

  The paired terms Setzen (positing) and Voraussetzen (presupposing) are the engine of Reflexion in the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4400–4516). Hegel's cardinal claim: "die setzende Reflexion ist von Anfang an auch voraussetzend" — the po…

• Substanz (Substance, Hegel)

  Substanz — substance — is the first moment of the Dritter Abschnitt (Wirklichkeit) of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 6181–6206, with the cardinal Spinoza-Anmerkung at raw 5951–5989). Substance is Spinoza's principle taken with utmost s…

• Verkehrte Welt (Inverted World, Hegel)

  The verkehrte Welt — inverted world — is one of Hegel's signature dialectical figures, attested in both the Phenomenology of Spirit (p. 96) and the 1813 Wissenschaft der Logik (GW 11 raw 5619 ff.). The cardinal philological feature: the Wd…

• Verschiedenheit (Diversity / Difference, Hegel)

  Verschiedenheit — diversity, difference (external) — is the second of the four Reflexionsbestimmungen in the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 4660 ff.). Verschiedenheit is difference held externally — two terms held apart by a third (the "In…

• Wechselwirkung (Reciprocal Action, Hegel)

  Wechselwirkung — reciprocal action — is the closing category of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 6377–6397). Hegel's signature claim: Wechselwirkung is not the truth — it is the dissolution of the Causalitätsverhältnis but not itself the…

• Wesen (Essence, Hegel)

  Hegel's Wesen — Essence — is the middle book of the Wissenschaft der Logik and the only section Hegel never revised. Wesen is not a hidden substrate behind Sein but Sein's own zeitlos vergangene recoil into itself: knowledge that wants the…

• Wesen (Verbal Sense, MP's Reading)

  In late Merleau-Ponty, Wesen is read verbally rather than substantively: not the whatness of a thing opposed to its thatness, but the active happening by which a thing is that thing — "the Wesen of the table is 'that which "tablefies" in i…

• Wesentliches Verhältnis (Essential Relation, Hegel)

  The wesentliche Verhältniß — essential relation — is the closing triadic structure of the Erscheinung-section of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5637–5848). Three stages, each formally incomplete because identity and difference of the r…

• Widerspruch (Hegel)

  Hegel's Widerspruch — contradiction — is the most famous and most contested doctrine in his Logic: that contradiction is the positive root of all motion, life, and drive, not a defect to be avoided. The locus classicus is the Anmerkung to…

• Wirklichkeit (Actuality, Hegel)

  Wirklichkeit — actuality — is the central category of the Dritter Abschnitt of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5851 ff.). Wirklichkeit is higher than both Existenz and Sein; it is the manifested unity of inner and outer. Hegel's cardina…

• Wissenschaft der Logik, Erster Band: Die Objective Logik (1812/1813) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1813

  Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · Year: 1812/1813 · Type: book