Reviews for The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy)

The average rating for The Opening of Hegel's Logic: From Being to Infinity (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-04 00:00:00 Joe Ackerman Houlgate gets it! Great stuff ' only wish this wasn't merely the opening, but rather the whole shebang. Read again for Houlgates course on the Logic.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-10-24 00:00:00 Raymond Robinson Hegelian philosophy has been a plague upon human thought for two centuries, for it makes good people depressed and depressed people evil. Dialectics is, quite seriously, how an idiot must view the universe. Things dissolve into their opposites and suddenly appear out of nowhere - imagine being severely mentally handicapped, wouldn't that be exactly how you would view reality, as everything merging, flickering on and off into being because your attention span cannot last long enough to comprehend why anything is happening in your life; no wonder Hegel has so many unkind words for mathematics. If you're feeling with thought, you're just feeling; if you're thinking with emotion, you're not thinking (this dialectical thinking will wear off on you). This study of the beginning of Hegel's logic does not have those faults; it is remarkably clear, and will help everyone understand why an insane person might think there exists something more fundamental to the universe than "something". The author explains, in fact, how something comes to be: ahem, being and nothing, in their incessant vanishing into one another become becoming in their settledness and from there determine themselves first into relation, then relation to self, and then something is born. Why do you think Kant thought "something" was the most basic constituent of the universe? Well, if you don't think so, then you have to admit that something comes out of being, and being and nothing are indistinguishable, and then, eventually, you have to admit that church and state shouldn't be separate because they're indistinguishable, just like thinking and feeling, and that freedom for all is actually only guaranteed under a monarchy presided over by the IMF who are conducting the world historical dialectic towards absolute knowing - for white males. Makes sense.