Lectures on Logic: Berlin, 1831

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave many lectures in logic at Berlin University between 1818 and his untimely death in 1831. Edited posthumously by Hegel's son, Karl, these lectures were published in German in 2001 and now appear in English for the first time. Because they were delivered orally, Lectures on Logic is more approachable and colloquial than much of Hegel's formal philosophy. The lectures provide important insight into Hegel's science of logic, dialectical method, and symbolic logic. Clark Butler's smooth translation helps readers understand the rationality of Hegel's often dark and difficult thought. Readers at all levels will find a mature and particularly clear presentation of Hegel's systematic philosophical vision.

"Butler has translated for clarity and flow, and has produced a text that reads very easily and smoothly, without sacrifice of accuracy." --John Russon, University of Guelph Indiana University Press Indiana University Press

The first English translation of Hegel's important lectures on logic

Clark Butler is Director of the Institute for Human Rights at Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne. He is translator (with Christiane Seiler) of Hegel: The Letters (IUP, 1984) and author of Hegel's Logic: Between Dialectic and History.

Translator's Introduction

Introduction to the Lectures on Logic

Preliminary General Concept of Our Subject Matter

A. The First Position [of Thought] Toward Objectivity

B. The Second Position of Thought Toward Objectivity

B.I. Empiricism

B.II. The Critical Philosophy

[B.II.]a. The theoretical faculty

[B.II.b.] Practical reason

[B.II.c. The reflective power of judgment]

C. The Third Position [of Thought] Toward Objectivity

[More Exact Concept and] Division of the [Science of] Logic

[I. Being]

II. [Essence]

III. The Self-Concept

BEING

I. Being

I.A. Quality

I.A.a. Being

I.A.b. Determinate Being [Dasein]

I.A.c. Being for Itself

I.B. Quantity

I.C. Measure

ESSENCE

II. Essence

II.A. Essence as the Ground of Existence

II.A.a. The Show of the Essence of Being

II.A.a. Identity

II.A.a. Difference

II.A.a. Ground

II.A.b. Existence

II.A.c. The Thing

II.B. Appearance

[II.B.a.] The World of Appearance

[II.B.b. Form and Content]

[II.B.c. Correlation]

[1.] The whole and its parts

[2. Force and its expression]

[3. The inner and the outer]

II.C. Actuality

[Moments of Actuality as an Efficacious Process: Contingency

and Mere Possibility versus the Real Possibility, Pre-Conditions,

and Necessity of a Matter at Hand]

[II.C.a. The Matter at Hand]

[II.C.b. The Moments of Necessity]

[1.] Conditions

[2.] The matter at hand

3. The activity [of a matter at hand actualizing itself]

[II.C.c. The Forms of Necessity]

[1. The correlation of substantiality]

[2. The correlation of causality]

[3. The correlation of reciprocal interaction]

THE SELF-CONCEPT

III. The Self-Concept

Subdivisions [of the Logic of the Self-Concept]

III.A. The Subjective Self-Concept

III.A.1. The Self-Concept as Such

III.A.2. Judgment

[III.A.2. Qualitative judgment]

III.A.2. Reflective judgment

III.A.2. Necessary judgment

III.A.2. Conceptual judgment

III.A.3. The Syllogisms

III.A.3.The qualitative syllogism

III.A.3.The reflective syllogism

III.A.3.The necessary syllogism

III.B. The Object

III.B.a. Mechanism

III.B.b. Chemism

III.B.c. Teleology

III.C. The Idea

III.C.a. Life

[III.C.a.1. The soul]

[III.C.a.2. The bodily organism]

[III.C.a.3. The species]

III.C.b. Recognizance [Erkennen]

III.C.b.1. Recognizance as such

[The analytical method]

[The synthetic method]

[Definition]

[Classification]

[Proof]

III.C.b.2. The will

III.C.c. The Absolute Idea