Abstract

The Logic interpreted by Professor Harris is the Encyclopaedia Logic translated by Wallace. He goes through it chapter by chapter and provides explanations of the various concepts and transitions, using references to the larger Logic, illustrations from the philosophy of nature, and anticipations of subsequent sections. His interpretation is essentially Spinozistic: the ultimate point of reference is the whole. And the dialectical development is the result of thought’s comparing its immediate concepts with “the whole immanent in them, which figures in each as what it aspires, yet fails to be”.