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Studies in The Hegelian Dialectic
Studies in The Hegelian Dialectic
in the
Hegelian Dialectic
Batoche Books
Kitchener
1999
To
Miss Frances Power Cobbe
with much gratitude
Contents
Preface ............................................................................................... 7
Chapter I: The General Nature of The Dialectic ................................ 8
Chapter II: Different Interpretations of the Dialectic ....................... 35
Chapter III: The Validity of The Dialectic ....................................... 72
Chapter IV: The Development of The Method ............................... 109
Chapter V: The Relation of The Dialectic to Time ........................ 142
Chapter VI: The Final Result of The Dialectic .............................. 178
Chapter VII: The Application of The Dialectic .............................. 203
Notes .............................................................................................. 226
Preface
The first four chapters of this book are based on a dissertation submitted at the Fellowship Examination of Trinity College, Cambridge, in
1891. The fourth and fifth chapters, nearly in their present form, were
published in Mind (New Series, Nos. 1, 2, 8, and 10). A part of the
second chapter appeared in the Revue de Mtaphysique et de Morale
for November 1893.
In quoting from the Smaller Logic and the Philosophy of Spirit, I
have generally availed myself of Professor Wallaces valuable translations.
I am most deeply indebted to Professor J. S. Mackenzie, of University College, Cardiff, for his kindness in reading the proof-sheets of
these Studies, and in assisting me with many most helpful suggestions
and corrections.
The changes in the second edition are not numerous. When they are
more than verbal, I have called attention to them in notes.
J. E. McT.
December, 1921.
Notes
1. Encyclopaedia, Section 240.
2. Chap. IV.
3. Enc. Section 212, lecture note
4. Bradleys Logic, Book III Part I. Chap. 2, Section 20.]
5. Ueber die dialektische Methode, B. II. 3.
6. Logic, Vol. II, 71.
7. Op. cit. B. II. 3.
8. Chap. v.
9. Enc. Section 24, lecture note,
10. Cp. Enc. Section 212, quoted on p. 3 above.
11. Chap. v.
12. Enc. Section 119, lecture note.
13. Enc. Section 240.
14. Enc. Sections 153, 154.
15. Op. cit. B. II. 6.
16. Op. cit. B. II. 6.
17. Logic, Vol. I, p. 198.
18. Chap. II.
19. Since I am here dealing only with the question of epistemology, it
will be allowable, I think, to assume that there is a matter of intuition,
distinct from thought, and not reducible to it, (though incapable of
existing apart from it,) since this is the position taken up within Hegels
Logic. Whether the dialectic process has any relation to it or not, its
existence is, in the Logic, admitted, at least provisionally. If Hegel
did make any attempt to reduce the whole universe to manifestation
of pure thought, without any other element, he certainly did not do so