Abstract

Aim of my research was that of determining the logical meaning of the Objectivity section within Hegel's work Science of Logic. The starting point of my dissertation has been a careful analysis of all those objections moved against Hegel's inclusion - within the Science of Logic - of the section and all its chapters (Mechanism, Chimism, and Teleology): such an inclusion, it has been claimed, seems to indicate a departure of logic from pure thought. Through a careful analysis of the gymnasial courses held by Hegel in Nuernberg, I was able to isolate some elements and logical structures particularly relevant to delineate the genesis of the section. With such elements at hand, in the second part of the dissertation, I have analysed the Science of Logic, trying to explain how the Objectivity section should be taken rather as a prosecution and a completion of the logical elements and of the speculative meaning of the Subjectivity section