 thumb|title page of original 1816 publication  the science of logic () is the work in which georg wilhelm friedrich hegel outlined his vision of logic, which is an ontology that incorporates the traditional aristotelian syllogism as a sub-component rather than a basis. for hegel, the most important achievement of german idealism, starting with kant and culminating in his own philosophy, was the demonstration that reality is shaped through and through by mind and, when properly understood, is mind. thus ultimately the structures of thought and reality, subject and object, are identical. and since for hegel the underlying structure of all of reality is ultimately rational, logic is not merely about reasoning or argument but rather is also the rational, structural core of all of reality and every dimension of it. thus hegel's science of logic includes among other things analyses of being, nothingness, becoming, existence, reality, essence, reflection, concept, and method. as developed, it included the fullest description of his dialectic. hegel considered it one of his major works and therefore kept it up to date through revision. the science of logic is sometimes referred to as the greater logic to distinguish it from the condensed version of it he presented in what is called the lesser logic, namely the logic section of his encyclopedia of the philosophical sciences. ==brief history of the book== hegel wrote 'the science of logic' after he had completed his phenomenology of spirit and while he was in nuremberg working at a secondary school and courting his fiancÃ©e. it was published in a number of volumes. the first, âthe objective logicâ, has two parts (the doctrines of being and essence) and each part was published in 1812 and 1813 respectively. the second volume, âthe subjective logicâ was published in 1816 the same year he became a professor of philosophy at heidelberg. the science of logic is too advanced for undergraduate students so hegel wrote an encyclopaedic version of the logic which was published in 1817. in 1826 the book went out of stock. instead of reprinting, as requested, hegel undertook some revisions. by 1831 hegel completed a greatly revised and expanded version of the âdoctrine of beingâ, but had no time to revise the rest of the book. the preface to the second edition is dated 7 november 1831, just before his death on 14 november 1831. this edition appeared in 1832, and again in 1834â5 in the posthumous works. only the second edition of science of logic is translated into english. ==introduction== ===hegel's general concept of logic=== according to hegel, logic is the form taken by the science of thinking in general. he thought that, as it had hitherto been practiced, this science demanded a total and radical r
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