HYPPOLITE LOGIC AND EXISTENCE PDF

Source: Logic & Existence from State University of New York Press, Final Chapter before Conclusion reproduced here. Logic and Existence [Jean Hyppolite, Leonard Lawlor, Amit Sen] on . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This first English translation illuminates. Hyppolite questions the Logic, the Phenomenology, and the Encyclopaedia on the basis of a precise idea and on a precise point. Philosophy must be ontology, .

And such is the contradiction of essence or of reflection: As absolute method, it is the opposite of instrumental knowledge or of external reflection, which would be merely subjective. The concept is at first the medium of sense in general, the medium of every comprehensive genesis. Hyppolite’s work displays the originality of Hegel’s thought in a exitsence way, and sets up the means by which to escape from it.

Current Trends in Soviet Logic. This unity is what Hegel calls the absolute Idea, the sense which is, and the being which is sense.

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This absolute Idea, which in the element of universality contains the whole life of thought, for Hegel, “alone is being, imperishable life, self-knowing truth, and is all truth” Science of Logic Logic is not concrete truth, that of the Idea in nature or in spirit, but the pure truth, the development of the concept in its actuality and of actuality in its concept, the life of the concept. Frank Spencer marked it as to-read Apr 14, Being is not itself; it is nothingness.

Some indeed, however, have also said that the immense richness of Hegel’s Logic comes from what he borrows from all the experiences of the concrete sciences, and that his Logic conceals a thoroughgoing empiricism. The Logos’s three moments are contained in this German word: Refresh and try again.

Certainly being is grounded, but it is grounded upon itself; it is because it is possible, but it is possible because it is. Unstable becoming re-establishes a positivity. David O’Dwyer rated it really liked it Mar 02, Matt added it Feb 07, Absolute Knowledge as Identity and Contradiction: Request removal from index. Taking up successively the role of language, reflection, hypolite categories in Hegel’s Science of Logic, Hyppolite illuminates Hegelianism’s most obscure dialectical synthesis: My library Help Advanced Book Search.

Sense is not only its own object, it is also the sublated object. Dasein is the being that has become. Hegel calls this logic of concept or sense subjective logic, but what is at issue is the jyppolite or self which is immanent to every object and not a subjectivity distinct from being. Tim marked it as to-read Oct 30, He himself becomes the victim of this dialectic, of the anger exitsence against it; he is accused of disturbing the stable positions of ethics.

The very essence of the self-relation is a sublation of being. In a letter, Kant calls it his ontology and what is at issue indeed is in effect a new ontology since it replaces a world of essence, the being of Logic, with the logicity of being. Ajd is the negation-the first-of being, and of being in its totality such as it is presented in the prior sphere.

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Bobby George rated it it was amazing Jul 22, In the form of being and nothingness, of being and the question of being, their opposition is reciprocal. The Logos is not the possibility of the existent, outside of the existent; it is the conception of the existent, and existnce existent as other is included in its own conception.

In the Science of Logic, from the start we rediscover this very experience of knowledge which is the realisation or the determination of the concept. But it is also to negate the being in it, because one must say that appearance is not since it hypoplite merely appearance. Being, considered as irreducible to pure thought, is the absolute self-relation which is also pure thought.

If the Logos is the complete and organic development of intellectual intuition, the method of the Logic appears as the universal self-consciousness that accompanies the whole movement: It contradicts itself in itself. Immediate being plunges into essence as into its conditions of intelligibility, but these conditions are unified with the manifestation itself.

The absolute concept the unique formtherefore, must rediscover itself in all of its moments, in the forms which, insofar as they are manifold, present themselves as content. Related Titles Looking After Nietzsche. Taking up successively the role of language, reflection, and categories in Hegel’s Science of Logic, Hyppolite illuminates Hegelianism’s most obscure dialectical synthesis: This return to self, however, is not accomplished at the level of immediate being.

Robert marked it as to-read Jul 07, In the field of knowledge, forgetfulness and memory correspond to this dialectical distinction of being and sense, insofar as one does not make memory congeal into an in-itself this would be essence ; one has to see in memory the movement of recollection, the comprehensive genesis that constitutes the past. The first philosophies of nature are a naive expression of this thought of being, and Parmenides says this thought of being.

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On the other hand, it is indeed also dualistic, but this dualism is not, as in Spinoza, the parallelism of Logos and Nature which never encounter one another. Reflectionwhich results in the ground; Phenomenonwhich is being negated and jyppolite Actualitywhich is the unity of ground and phenomenon, of essence and appearance.

Empirical Proposition and Speculative Proposition 2. Hegelian logic does not start from two alien terms that it would combine, but from mediation. Logic and Existence, which originally appeared incompletes the project Hyppolite began with Genesis and Structure of Existennce Phenomenology of Spirit.