Hegel’s Dialectic

✍ Scribed by Andries Sarlemijn (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Series: Sovietica 33
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book was written in 1968, and defended as a doctoral dissertation before the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1969. It treats of the systematic views of Hegel which led him to give to the princi­ ple of non-contradiction, the principle of double negation, and the principle of excluded middle, meanings which are difficult to understand. The reader will look in vain for the philosophical position of the author. A few words about the intentions which motivated the author to study and clarify Hegel's thought are therefore not out of place. In the early sixties, when occupying myself with the history of Marxist philosophy, I discovered that the representatives of the logical-positivist tra­ dition were not alone in employing a principle of demarcation; that those of the dialectical Marxist tradition were also using such a principle ('self-move­ ment') as a foundation of a scientific philosophy and as a means to delimit unscientific ideas. I aimed at a clear conception of this principle in order to be able to judge whether, and to what extent, it accords with the foundations of the analytical method. In this endeavor I encountered two problems: (1) What is to be understood by 'analytical method' cannot be ascertained un­ equivocally.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Dialectic of the Real....Pages 15-26
Positive Dialectic....Pages 27-67
The Subject Matter of Dialectical Philosophy....Pages 68-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-102
‘Metaphysics’ — a Philosophical Discipline....Pages 103-111
Metaphysical Method in General....Pages 112-120
Spinoza and Double Negation....Pages 121-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-126
Infinity....Pages 127-132
Absolute Necessity....Pages 133-142
Being is Thought....Pages 143-154
Back Matter....Pages 155-192

✦ Subjects

Regional and Cultural Studies