Logic as a Metaphysical science

It is pure [metaphysical] knowledge in the entire range of its development

Hegel Hegel
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Superphysics Note!
In the previous part, Hegel established a beginning for thought. This is to set up the next step which is logic or the flow of thought

94 Logic is pure [metaphysical] science.

The result of pure [metaphysical] knowing is the Idea which has become truth.

The certainty of truth* no longer has the object over against it.

Superphysics Note!
In Superphysics, this is the match between idea and perception

Instead, this certainty [between idea and perception]:

  • has internalised the object
  • knows it as its own self
  • has given up the knowledge of itself as of something confronting the object of which it is only the annihilation
  • has divested itself of this subjectivity and is at one with its self-alienation.

95 From this, the determination of pure [metaphysical] knowledge begins with:

  • getting rid of all other reflections and opinions*
  • simply taking up what is before us
Superphysics Note!
This is to focus on the match, as truth

96 Pure [metaphysical] knowing as concentrated into this unity has sublated all reference to an other and to mediation.

It is thus distinctionless. It is only simple immediacy and stops being knowledge.

97 Simple immediacy is itself an expression of reflection.

It references itself with what is mediated.

This simple immediacy [relation]*, therefore, is pure being [metaphysical existence].

Superphysics Note!
This link connects idea and perception which are both metaphysical existences

Pure [metaphysical] knowing means abstract [metaphysical] knowing.

Pure [metaphysical] being [existence] is [philosophical] being [existence] in general.

98 Here, the beginning is made with being [existence] that exists through mediation [relation].

  • This mediation [relation] is also a sublating of itself.

[Metaphysical] knowing is the outcome of finite knowing, of consciousness.

[Metaphysical] knowing serves as the beginning of logic and thought if:

  • no presupposition is to be made
  • the beginning itself is taken immediately

All that is present is simply the arbitrary resolve [desire] to think about thought.

99 Thus, the beginning must be an absolute, an abstract beginning.

The beginning:

  • cannot suppose anything
  • must not be mediated by anything
  • cannot have a ground

Rather, the beginning :

  • is itself the ground of the entire science.
  • consequently must be purely and simply an immediacy
  • is immediacy itself
  • cannot be relative to anything else
  • cannot contain within itself any determination or content
    • This is because any such determination or content would be a distinguishing and an inter-relationship of distinct moments.
    • This would turn it into a mediation.

The beginning of logic therefore is pure being [metaphysical existence].

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