Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant

Hegel: Idealism

Is Hegel’s Logic a work of metaphysics?

Essay of no more than 2,500 words.

Primary sources

• Hegel, G. W. F.: Hegel’s Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Oxford University Press Translations, electronic edition.§§1–78.
• Hegel, G. W. F.: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PublisherIntroduction, pp. 27ff., 33ff., 47ff., 64–67, 71, 77–85, 125ff.

Secondary sources

• Beiser, Frederick C. 2005. Chapter 3: Absolute Idealism, pp. 53–79 in Hegel. New York: Routledge. DOI
• Kreines, James 2006. Hegel’s Metaphysics: Changing the Debate. Philosophy Compass 1(5): 466–480. DOI
• Pippin, Robert 2018. Chapter 2: Logic and Metaphysics, pp. 38–99 in Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in The Science of Logic. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Publisher
• Taylor, Charles 1975. Chapter 3: Self-positing Spirit, pp. 76–124 in Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI

General introductions

• Beiser, Frederick C. 2005. Hegel. London: Routledge. DOI
• Beiser, Frederick C. (ed.) 1993. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Taylor, Charles 1975. Hegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI