_THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE
PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES_
FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE
AND WHYTE'S PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
1892
The present volume contains a translation, which has been revised
throughout and compared with the original, of the Logic as given in the
first part of Hegel's _Encyclopaedia,_ preceded by a bibliographical
account of the three editions and extracts from the prefaces of that
work, and followed by notes and illustrations of a philological rather
than a philosophical character on the text. This introductory chapter
and these notes were not included in the previous edition.
The volume containing my Prolegomena is under revision and will be
issued shortly.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE ON THE THREE EDITIONS AND THREE PREFACES OF THE
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II.
PRELIMINARY NOTION
CHAPTER III.
FIRST ATTITUDE OF THOUGHT TO OBJECTIVITY
CHAPTER IV.
SECOND ATTITUDE OF THOUGHT TO OBJECTIVITY:
I. _Empiricism_
II. _The Critical Philosophy_
CHAPTER V.
THIRD ATTITUDE OF THOUGHT TO OBJECTIVITY:--
_Immediate or Intuitive Knowledge_
CHAPTER VI.
LOGIC FURTHER DEFINED AND DIVIDED
CHAPTER VII.
FIRST SUBDIVISION OF LOGIC:--_The Doctrine of Being_
CHAPTER VIII.
SECOND SUBDIVISION OF LOGIC:--_The Doctrine of Essence_
CHAPTER IX.
THIRD SUBDIVISION OF LOGIC:--_The Doctrine of the Notion_
ON CHAPTER
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES IN OUTLINE is the third
in time of the four works which Hegel published. It was preceded by
the _Phenomenology of Spirit,_ in 1807, and the _Science of Logic_ (in
two volumes), in 1812-16, and was followed by the _Outlines of the
Philosophy of Law_ in 1820. The only other works which came directly
from his hand are a few essays, addresses, and reviews. The earliest
of these appeared in the _Critical Journal of Philosophy,_ issued by
his friend Schelling and himself, in 1802--when Hegel was one and
thirty, which, as Bacon thought, 'is a great deal of sand in the
hour-glass'; and the latest were his contributions to the _Jahrbücher
für wissenschaftliche Kritik,_ in the year of his death (1831).
This _Encyclopaedia_ is the only complete, matured, and authentic
statement of Hegel's philosophical system. But, as the title-page
bears, it is only an outline; and its primary aim is to supply a manual
for the guidance of his students. In its mode of exposition the free
flight of speculation is subordinated to the needs of the professorial
class-room. Pegasus is put in harness. Paragraphs concise in form and
saturated with meaning postulate and presuppose the presiding spirit
of the lecturer to fuse them into continuity and raise them to higher
lucidity. Yet in two directions the works of Hegel furnish a supplement
to the defects of the _Encyclopaedia._