Note 3. To the Subsection “The Dialectic of Being, Nothing, and Becoming”
In the section dealing with “Quality,” in “The Doctrine of Being,” Hegel stated, “Pure Being makes the beginning: because it is on one hand pure thought, and on the other immediacy itself, simple and indeter-minate; and the first beginning can not be mediated by anything, or be further determined.” Hegel’s Logic, trans. William Wallace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975), 124.