1. A Short Discussion of Stephen Houlgate's Hegel on Being
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Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin
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It is a heroic enterprise to develop a systematic reading of Hegel's Doctrine of Being, the first of three books in the Science of Logic. The basic idea of Houlgate's grand interpretation of Hegel's three parts of this Doctrine, which I call the Logic of Quality, Quantity and Measure, is that Hegel demands a ‘presuppositionless derivation of categories’ (II: ix). Hegel on Being(in short: HoB) presents a thoroughgoing and rigorous interpretation in a kind of dialogue(as I would characterize what HoBmarks as ‘Excursus’) with Kant (I: 19–46, 307–73; II: 171–79) and especially Frege's formal logic and his attempts of a predicative definition of numbers (II: 25–138). In any case, HoBmakes us aware of the really problematic presuppositions in post-Fregean Analytic Philosophy.
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- 2023
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