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The Origin and Significance of
Hegel’s Logic:
A General Introduction to Hegel’s
System
J.B. Baillie
Macmillian, New York and London
1901
Batoche Books
Kitchener
1999
Contents
Preface ............................................................................................... 5
Chapter I: Introduction ....................................................................... 9
Chapter II: First Stage—From 1797 to 1800—Hegel’s Early Logic 22
Chapter III: Second Stage—From 1801 to 1807 ............................. 45
Chapter IV: Hegel and his Contemporaries ...................................... 72
Chapter V: Transition—Origin of The “Phenomenology of Mind” and
of the “Logic” ............................................................................ 85
Chapter VI: Third Stage—From 1807 to 1812–16—The Phenomenol-
ogy of Mind .............................................................................. 111
Chapter VII: The “Phenomenology” (continued)—Phenomenology
and Logic ................................................................................. 135
Chapter VIII: Origin and Nature of the Content of the Logic ........ 150
Chapter IX: Origin and Nature of the Method of the Logic ........... 175
Chapter X: Relation of Logic to Nature .......................................... 211
Chapter XI: Retrospective—The Historical Setting of Hegel’s
Logic ....................................................................................... 219
Chapter XII: Criticism ................................................................... 225
Preface
The student of Hegel usually finds the Logic the most forbidding and
impossible part of the System. At the same time he is aware, not merely
from Hegel’s own statements, but from the general nature of Hegel’s
philosophy, that unless he can discover the clue to the tale of the catego-
ries, Hegel’s System will remain for the most part a sealed secret. In his
perplexity he generally abandons, after a short struggle, the effort to
understand the System, and regards it either with contempt or despair
according to his temperament.
The difficulties felt are due partly to the strangeness of the System,
the absence of apparent points of contact with ordinary thought, and
partly also to the fact that Hegel has made no confession regarding the
path which led him to his final result. Other difficulties of course re-
main, even when the preliminary obstacles are overcome; but they are
of a different kind and hardly so paralysing to continued interest. It is
one thing not to understand what an author means in given context, for
this difficulty arises from what we already know of the author and the
context in question; it is quite another matter not to be sure what the
author really intends to say in any context at all.
It is the aim of the present work to attempt to remove these initial
difficulties more particularly in the way of understanding the Logic, but
also regarding the point of view of the System generally. The author has
tried to show how the Science of Logic as expounded by Hegel arose in
the course of the development of his System, and to state its general
meaning. He has thought that if the way could be indicated by which the
Logic grew up in the mind of its author, much of the preliminary obscu-
rity which hangs over it might be removed, and such philosophical value
as it claims to possess might be more easily appreciated. The purpose of
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