Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind : a Critical ExpositionS.C. Griggs, 1890 - 403 pages "This book discusses the philosophy of Hegel, in particular, his work, Logic. It features the author's study of the entire scope and plan of the Hegelian Logic, especially its relations to other branches of knowledge and to preceding philosophic systems." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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activity agnosticism annuls antinomy antithe Aristotle becoming beginning Begriff being-for-itself being-in-itself cate categories of essence causa sui causality cause chapter consciousness contradiction dependent determinateness dialectic difference discover distinction divine doctrine empty ence energy entelechy essential existence explain expression Fichte final reality finite finitude force gism gory ground Hegel calls hence ideal identity immediate imperfect implies independent indifference individual infinite infinitude insight intensive quantity judgment Kant knowing large logic limit logical conditions manifestation measure mediation middle term mind moments namely nature naught negation negative ness notion object pantheism particular perfect phases Phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit philosophy Plato posited predicate presupposes presupposition principle produces pure thought reality realization reason relation religion result return-into-self revealed Schelling second figure self-activity self-consciousness self-determination self-relation sense-perception space Spirit sub-categories syllogism things thinking tion tive totality true truth uncon units unity universal vidual words
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Page 143 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page xxix - An Introduction to Mental Philosophy, on the Inductive Method. By JD MORELL, MA LL.D. 8vo. 12s. Elements of Psychology, containing the Analysis of the Intellectual Powers. By the same Author. Post 8vo. 7s. 6d. The Secret of Hegel: being the Hegelian System in Origin, Principle, Form, and Matter.
Page 25 - God dwelt, so it ultimately refers to the adorable mystery of the union of the divine and human natures in the person of the glorious Emmanuel, which makes him such an object of our hope and confidence, as the most exalted creature, with the most glorious endowments, could never of himself be.
Page xiii - ... of philosophy and solve their problems. Even the hunting of wild turkeys or squirrels was the occasion for the use of philosophy. Philosophy came to mean with us, therefore, the most practical of all species of knowledge. 'We used it to solve all problems connected with school teaching and school management. We studied the dialectic of politics and political parties and understood how measures and men might be combined by this light.
Page 18 - The world is the process of the evolution and perfection of immortal souls; the history of the human race exhibits the progress of souls into the consciousness of freedom ; the philosophy and history of art show us how each people has succeeded in realizing for itself in sensuous forms the ideals of its civilization ; the philosophy and history of religion is an account of the dogmas and ceremonial forms...
Page xiii - Mr. Brockmeyer's deep insights and his poetic power of setting them forth with symbols and imagery furnished me and my friends of those early years all of our outside stimulus in the study of German philosophy. He impressed us with the practicality of philosophy, inasmuch as he could flash into the questions of the day, and even into the questions of the moment, the highest insight of philosophy and solve their problems.
Page xiv - his final and present stand-point in regard to the true outcome of the Hegelian system...
Page 380 - Unde et Deus Pater operatus est creaturam per suum Verbum, quod est Filius; et per suum Amorem qui est Spiritus sanctus.
Page 251 - Now the infinity of a series consists in the fact that it can never be completed through successive synthesis. It thus follows that it is impossible for an infinite world-series to have passed away, and that a beginning of the world is therefore a necessary condition of the world's existence.
Page 17 - The test of any system of philosophy, it has been said, is the account it gives of the institutions of civilization.