THE LOGIC OF HEGEL

TRANSLATED FROM

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE
PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES

By

WILLIAM WALLACE, M.A, LL.D.

FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE

AND WHYTE'S PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHYIN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1892

NOTE

The present volume contains a translation, which has been revisedthroughout and compared with the original, of the Logic as given in thefirst part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia, preceded by a bibliographicalaccount of the three editions and extracts from the prefaces of thatwork, and followed by notes and illustrations of a philological ratherthan a philosophical character on the text. This introductory chapterand these notes were not included in the previous edition.

The volume containing my Prolegomena is under revision and will beissued shortly.

W. W.

CONTENTS

Bibliographical Notice on the Three Editions
and Three Prefaces of theEncyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences

THE SCIENCE OF LOGIC.

CHAPTER I.

Introduction    3

CHAPTER II.

Preliminary Notion   30

CHAPTER III.

First Attitude of Thought to Objectivity   60

CHAPTER IV.

Second Attitude of Thought to Objectivity:—
I. Empiricism   76
II. The Critical Philosophy   82

CHAPTER V.

Third Attitude of Thought to Objectivity:—
Immediate or Intuitive Knowledge 121

CHAPTER VI.

Logic Further Defined and Divided 143

CHAPTER VII.

First Subdivision of Logic:—
The Doctrine of Being 156

CHAPTER VIII.

Second Subdivision of Logic:—
The Doctrine of Essence 207

CHAPTER IX.

Third Subdivision of Logic:—
The Doctrine of the Notion 287

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

ON CHAPTER