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(2017), and Jake McNulty’s discussion in his “Logic in Hegel’s Logic” (ms).
iiThe Logic precludes argument from religion, and I am not at all interested here in defending (or attacking) religion. I simply take the metaphysical arguments
to be interesting, and follow them as such.
iii Though Hegel’s seeing and appreciating this idea is beside the point here, where we just need the idea to make concrete the distinction, on that topic see e.g.
“daß die Natur, das eigentümliche Wesen … der Begriff der Sache, das in ihr selbst Allgemeine ist, wie jedes menschliche Individuum, objzwar ein unendlich
eigentümliches, das Prius aller seiner Eigentümlichkeit darin, Mensch zu sein, in sich hat…“ (5:26).
iv In broader strokes, I see this as the following:
“Being”: cf. Eleatic principle: to be is to have causal power; to be is to have an essence that determines or grounds in some way
“Essence”: to determine or ground is to be to some degree self-determining.
[footnote to this footnote: Thomas Meyer (“Hegel’s Wesenslogische Kausalitätskapital…” p. 11) makes a comparison to the Eleatic principle, and notes the
connection to Spinoza 1P36: “Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.”]
v I take this to follow from the results in McNulty, Jake, “Logic in Hegel’s Logic” (ms).
vi Except where noted, Hegel citations are from the Suhrkamp Werke, usable electronically while travelling. Citations beginning with a 5: or 6: are from the
Wissenschaft der Logik. Those beginning with § are from the Enzyklopädie, where Anm indicates Hegel’s Anmerkungen, and Zu indicates the Zusätze in the
Suhrkamp edition.
vii Vorlesungen über die Logik, Berlin 1831, Nachgeschrieben von Karl Hegel, Ausgewählte Nachschriften und Manuskripte Band 10.
viii I am greatly indebted to Marcela García (2016) on Schelling’s use of Aristotle against Hegel.
ix Also: „…seine Grenze ist, als Aufhören des Anderen an ihm, zugleich selbst nur das Sein des Etwas; dieses ist durch sie das, was es ist…“ (5:136).