Hegel on the abstract nature of being and nothingness
Hegel stated the following: “But every additional and more concrete characterization causes Being to lose that integrity and simplicity it has in the beginning. Only in, and by virtue of, this mere generality is it Nothing, something inexpressible, whereof the distinction from Nothing is a mere intention or meaning. All that is wanted is to realize that these beginnings are nothing but these empty abstractions, one as empty as the other.” Hegel’s Logic, 127.
Note
- Hegel on God’s Eternal Essence in Logic
- Hegel on pure being and the beginning of logic
- The Absolute Idea: Abstract vs. Actual in Hegel’s philosophy
- Engels on the limitations of formal logic
- Stalin on language and superstructure
- Terasawa on the unfilled need for a materialist dialectical logic
- Kant on the hierarchy of human knowledge
- Hegel on the abstract nature of being and nothingness
- Akira Seto on the difficulties in the debate on logic
- The circular nature of Hegel’s Philosophy: Beginning and end as one