THE

HEGELIAN SYSTEM.

VOL. II.

THE

SECRET OF HEGEL:

BEING

THE HEGELIAN SYSTEM

IN

ORIGIN, PRINCIPLE, FORM, AND MATTER.

BY

JAMES HUTCHISON STIRLING.

Μάντιν, ή ίητήρα κακών

Ούτοι γάρ κλητοί γε βροτών επ' άπείρονα γαίαν.

• The Hidden Secret of the Universe is powerless to resist the might of thought; it must inclose itself before it, revealing to sight and bringing to enjoyment its riches and its depths.'

HEGEL.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.

265. i 2.

ERRATA. Vol. II. -Pages 208, 216, in the phrase after-process strike out the hyphen.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

III.

THE SECTION, QUALITY, AS TRANSLATED IN II.,

HERE COMMENTED AND INTERPRETET).

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Definiteness (Quality)

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CHAPTER I.

Being

A. Being

B. Nothing

C. Becoming

1. Unity of Being and Nothing

Remark 1. The Antithesis of Being and Nothing in

Conception

2. Defectiveness of the Expression-Unity,

Identity of Being and Nothing

3. The isolating of these Abstractions

4. The Incomprehensibleness of the Beginning

2. Moments of Becoming

3. Sublation of Becoming

Remark. The Expression-Sublation.

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