Lectures on Logic

Clark Butler is Director of the Institute for Human Rights at Indiana University–Purdue University, Ft. Wayne. He is translator (with Christiane Seiler) of Hegel: The Letters (IUP, 1984) and author of Hegel's Logic: Between Dialectic and History.

"Butler has translated for clarity and flow, and has produced a text that reads very easily and smoothly, without sacrifice of accuracy."—John Russon, University of Guelph

• Translator's IntroductionIntroduction to the Lectures on LogicPreliminary General Concept of Our Subject MatterA. The First Position [of Thought] Toward ObjectivityB. The Second Position of Thought Toward ObjectivityB.I. EmpiricismB.II. The Critical Philosophy[B.II.]a. The theoretical faculty[B.II.b.] Practical reason[B.II.c. The reflective power of judgment]C. The Third Position [of Thought] Toward Objectivity[More Exact Concept and] Division of the [Science of] Logic[I. Being]II. [Essence]III. The Self-ConceptBEINGI. BeingI.A. QualityI.A.a. BeingI.A.b. Determinate Being [Dasein]I.A.c. Being for ItselfI.B. QuantityI.C. MeasureESSENCEII. EssenceII.A. Essence as the Ground of Existence II.A.a. The Show of the Essence of Being II.A.a. IdentityII.A.a. DifferenceII.A.a. GroundII.A.b. ExistenceII.A.c. The ThingII.B. Appearance[II.B.a.] The World of Appearance[II.B.b. Form and Content][II.B.c. Correlation][1.] The whole and its parts[2. Force and its expression][3. The inner and the outer]II.C. Actuality [Moments of Actuality as an Efficacious Process: Contingencyand Mere Possibility versus the Real Possibility, Pre-Conditions,and Necessity of a Matter at Hand][II.C.a. The Matter at Hand][II.C.b. The Moments of Necessity][1.] Conditions[2.] The matter at hand3. The activity [of a matter at hand actualizing itself][II.C.c. The Forms of Necessity][1. The correlation of substantiality][2. The correlation of causality][3. The correlation of reciprocal interaction]THE SELF-CONCEPTIII. The Self-ConceptSubdivisions [of the Logic of the Self-Concept]III.A. The Subjective Self-Concept III.A.1. The Self-Concept as SuchIII.A.2. Judgment [III.A.2. Qualitative judgment]III.A.2. Reflective judgmentIII.A.2. Necessary judgmentIII.A.2. Conceptual judgmentIII.A.3. The SyllogismsIII.A.3.The qualitative syllogismIII.A.3.The reflective syllogismIII.A.3.The necessary syllogismIII.B. The ObjectIII.B.a. MechanismIII.B.b. ChemismIII.B.c. TeleologyIII.C. The Idea III.C.a. Life[III.C.a.1. The soul][III.C.a.2. The bodily organism][III.C.a.3. The species]III.C.b. Recognizance [Erkennen]III.C.b.1. Recognizance as such[The analytical method][The synthetic method][Definition][Classification][Proof]III.C.b.2. The willIII.C.c. The Absolute Idea