Essence, Reflexion, and Immediacy in Hegel's Science of Logic

In Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel. Malden, MA: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 139–158 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: From Being to Essence Essence and Seeming Reflexion Positing and Presupposing External and Determining Reflexion Identity and Difference Diversity Reflexive and Non‐reflexive Immediacy Reflexion and the Concept Conclusion Abbreviations.

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essence, reflexion and immediacy ‐ in Hegel's science of logic   doctrine of essence, by Hegel's own admission ‐ difficult part of speculative logic   Hegel's notorious standards ‐ concept of reflexion, hard to understand   Hegel's Science of Logic ‐ study of fundamental categories of thought and being   Hegel, arguing that categories ‐ derived in doctrine of being, turning into one another “dialectically”   Hegel, on quality and quantity as forming a unity ‐ self‐relating being   essence and seeming ‐ conception of essence, emerging at the end of the doctrine of being   essence of being, for Hegel ‐ being not, initially necessity, but non‐immediacy   Hegel's words, the immediate is … the same as reflexion   diversity, reflexively constituted ‐ conversely, reflexion taking the form of diversity

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