We’ll start looking at the basic details of Hegel’s opening argument, along with further discussion of its method, and the similarities of that method to Fichte’s “synthetic” method as it appears in the Foundations.
Readings
- Fichte: Excerpt from the Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge (pp. 105-119)
- Hegel: Being-Nothing-Becoming
- Hegel: Encyclopedia §§79-82
- Notes: Dialectic: Subjective & Objective (PDF)
- Grads (pick one)
- Forster, “Hegel’s Dialectical Method”
- Houlgate, “Logic and Ontology”
- Maybee, “Hegel’s Dialectics”
- Beiser, Dialectic