Andy Blunden

Name: The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic
Author: Andy Blunden

The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

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“The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic”, is a work by Andy Blunden. It explores elements such as concepts, Hegel and Logic.

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ It is the return of the Notion to Being, the unity of Being and its opposite, the Notion.
There is always a "gap" between what we set out to do and what we actually do, between our theoretical idea and our practical idea. ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ Systematicity is a property of the objective world. The adequacy of countless concepts of systematicity in Nature has been proved by practice. However, with Marx, the concept of system in philosophy was transformed from an absolute to a relative. As marvelous a creation as is Hegel's system of the Absolute Idea, it is absurd to suppose that we can build up a systematic Notion of the world by perfecting such a system, or at least that a single writer can do so within the scope of a single book. ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ Being - Notion - Absolute Idea The world first appears in thought as "one damn thing after another", immediate perception. Laws and tendencies, form and content, cause and effect, etc., are all present in this world which presents itself to us, but these moments are not yet disclosed, they lie "behind" Being. ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ This immediate perception, or the world "in-itself", we call Being.
Human practice and individual consciousness may be said to "reconstruct" the world in the form of the mental images we have of it. These "mental images" are not just "snap-shots" of the various objects and processes, but the laws and concepts such as form, likeness, causality, means and end, genus and species, etc., etc., by which we both recognise and understand reality and reproduce it in our practice. ”

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“ When we act in the world as humans (rather than simply as lumps of hydrocarbon) we act both as part of the world, immediate actors and agents, driven by unconscious urges and the ordinary forces of Nature, and, as an Other, as conscious, social individuals expressing our theoretical Notion of the world by consciously negating it, translating an idea of the world as it ought to be and could be, and putting it into the world, changing the world to bring it into line with our more or less well-founded Notion of it.
Practice is action of a material subject in the world, according to its Notion. ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ Being - Essence - Notion Between Being (Book I) - immediate perception, and the Notion (Book III) - the conception of immediate perception in terms of notions, lies Essence (Book II) . Essence is to do with how something of which we do not yet have a Notion enters consciousness - how we first form a notion of something. Being is about Notion-less perception; Essence is about the genesis or Becoming of the Notion; the Notion is about the development or concretisation of a concept.
We can only begin to grasp something new in terms of the concepts we already have. ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ At first something is put forward, is posited, presents itself. It presents itself also by way of negating something else, its negation, that which it is not. That which it is not may be what it was, it's form as opposed to its content, a pre-conception of it, or merely its negative pole - the "anti-thesis". ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ New Being meets with itself in past Being. The result is a contradictory development of perception in which the inadequacy of past notions is brought out in the form of internal contradictions which arise as we penetrate deeper into immediate perception.
As Hegel puts it in The Science of Logic:
It may be said that cognition begins in general with ignorance, for one does not learn to know something with which one is already acquainted. ”

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Andy Blunden, The Meaning of Hegel's Logic — I: The Structure of The Logic

“ This conception [historical materialism] , however, puts an end to philosophy in the realm of history, just as the dialectical conception of nature makes all [systems of] natural philosophy both unnecessary and impossible. It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. ”

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