Logic and System

1. Three contemporary studies of Hegel.- a. J. Hyppolite.- b. Theodor Litt.- c. G. R. G. Mure.- d. Summary.- 2. The situation of this study.- a. The purpose.- b. The title.- c. The method.- I "Vorstellung" and Thought.- I The description of Vorstellung.- 1. The meaning of meaning.- 2. Thought as Vorstellung.- a. "Das mittlere Element".- b. Contingent and abstract.- c. Space and time.- d. Meaning as "Meinung".- 3. Thought and Vorstellung.- a. Transition to formal thought.- b. "Verstand" and "Vernunft".- c. The return to Vorstellung.- II The place of Vorstellung in the philosophy of spirit.- 1. Meaning and place.- 2. The dialectic in nature and spirit.- a. Soul and nature.- b. Space and time.- The double character of time.- The appearance of space.- The appearance of time.- c. Place.- 3. Intuition (Anschauung).- a. The place of intuition.- b. The totality of intuition.- c. Attention (Aufmerksamkeit).- 4. Vorstellung.- a. Recapitulation.- b. Transition to Vorstellung.- c. Recollection (Erinnerung).- Temporality of the subject.- Verification: the synthesis of Vorstellung.- d. Imagination (Einbildungskraft).- Recapitulation.- The syntheses of imagination.- Verbal language.- Dimensions of time.- e. Memory (Gedachtnis).- f. Transition to thought.- III The Logic Of Essence.- 1. Vorstellung and essence.- 2. The place of essence.- a. The two principles of division in the Logic.- The three "Books".- Objective and subjective logic.- Externality within the Logic.- b. The logic of being.- Dialectic without relations.- Intuition and indifference.- The totality of being.- c. Transition to essence.- Essence and common sense.- Transition as reflection.- Double sense of reflection.- Language and the double categories of essence.- d. Development to actuality.- The growth of a totality.- Verification and recognition.- e. Transition to the notion.- 3. Essence as reflection into itself.- a. Essential and unessential: "Schein".- The presupposition of being.- The positing of being.- b. Positing reflection.- Positing and presupposing.- The "in so far".- c. External reflection.- The origin of Vorstellung.- Thought as historical.- d. Contradiction.- The principle of contradiction.- The final stage of thought.- e. Ground.- Self-grounding of the totality.- The nature and element of spirit.- Transition.- II Logic and System.- IV Development Toward System.- 1. The problem re-stated.- 2. Dualism and system.- 3. The "Jugendschriften" and origins of the system.- a. Tubingen, Berne, Frankfurt.- First attitude to positivity.- Second attitude to positivity.- Reconciliation.- "Glauben und Sein".- "Systemfragment".- b. Publications at Jena.- Transition to philosophy.- Philosophy as system.- Scepticism, common sense, and philosophy.- Attitude to Fichte and Schelling ("Differenzschrift").- Attitude to Kant ("Glauben und Wissen").- c. The Jena "systems".- Their content.- The principles of division.- Conclusions.- d. Origin of the Phenomenology.- V The system in the element of Vorstellung.- 1. Recapitulation.- 2. Absolute spirit in the form of Vorstellung.- a. Transition to absolute spirit.- Finite and absolute spirit.- Identity of subjective and objective.- Identity of form and content.- b. Development in absolute spirit.- Religion as development.- Temporal development.- c. The "other" of thought.- The three elements of religion.- Relation to the duality of essence.- d. Spirit as result and as origin.- "Offenbarung" and "Erhebung".- Logic and Phenomenology.- 3. System in the form of Vorstellung.- a. The notion of system.- b. The three elements.- c. The element of thought.- Transition in thought and from thought.- The ontological argument.- Relation to essence.- Result and origin.- d. The element of Vorstellung.- The "other" of thought.- The need of reconciliation.- Transition to spirit.- e. The element of spirit.- The situation of philosophy.- The final identity.- f. System and history.- VI The system in the element of thought: Conclusion.- 1. Circularity and criticism.- 2. System and syllogism.- a. The doctrine of the syllogism.- b. The triad of syllogisms.- c. The mediating syllogism.- 3. The place of the Logic in the system.- a. System.- The need of system.- The thought of totality.- The transitions.- b. Logic.- Ambiguity and autonomy.- Explanation and verification.- Thought and experience.- c. Place.- The situation of man.- Man's "element".- The history of man's thought.