The science of logic
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · first published 2010
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"The purpose of the Cambridge Hegel Translations is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Hegel's work in a uniform format suitable for Hegel scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus. This new translation of The Science of Logic by G.W.F. Hegel (also known as his Greater Logic) includes the revised Book One (1832), Book Two (1813), and Book Three (1816). Recent research has given us a detailed picture of the process that led Hegel to his final conception of the System of Philosophy and of the place of the Logic within it. We now und
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You could try the OG book of modern logic, to which all 20th century tracts on logic are responses to, Hegel's Science of Logic. Though its very different from what you might expect out of a logic text.
on “The Hoare Cube” ↗Bill Lawvere, an extraordinarily original thinker and pioneer of category theory and logic has thought Hegel worth studying and has produced very nice mathematics out of the Science of Logic [1]. Honestly if you've made up your mind that there's nothing worth reading in Hegel or Marx you're like a frog at the bottom of a well. [1] https://github.com/mattearnshaw/lawvere/blob/master/pdfs/199...
on “Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)” ↗If you learn by reading, read primary sources: Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel (the Science of Logic in particular), in that order, are basically what you need to get caught up to modernity in philosophy. What would be a primary source for Protagoras? It appears none of his works are extant.
on “Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy” ↗…a "whole" in its own is composed of many wholes themselves, and goes on to partake in a bigger "whole". You’re gonna love philosophy!! This is covered most definitively and scientifically by Hegel’s Science of Logic, but that’s like super advanced high level philosophy so you might not want to start there lol. Either way best of luck, I totally agree with your general thesis! You’ll be happy to know that, in general,…
on “We must seek a widely-applicable science of systems” ↗…interplay between our computational boundedness as observers, and the computational irreducibility of underlying processes in the universe. His big insight is literally the starting point of Hegel’s The Science of Logic, namely that we are finite. That in no ways justifies all the other stuff (especially multiverse theory), and it’s not enough to build a meaningfully useful conception of time, at all. All it gets you…
on “On the Nature of Time” ↗…philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_C._Beiser#Works Also, it's much easier to start with Hegel's lectures (on aesthetics, history, religion etc.) and just go read the Phenomenology & Science of Logic after one has a sense of his style and general philosophy. It's foolish to start by the most difficult texts. And don't take Schopenhauer's criticisms of Hegel too seriously, as they are mostly due to…
on “Hegel Today” ↗This claim will be hard for anyone to assess without having read and understood Hegel, particularly the incredibly long and dense "Science of Logic." While I haven't read the latter, his interpretation on the surface seems like a gross simplification of something that few scholars agree on, regarding a book that few have read. If Hegel's ontology…
on “Hegelian contradiction and the prime numbers (part 2)” ↗here is an excellent archive of his works, including hypertext and diagrams of his logical system Hegel by HyperText: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm Visualiation of the Science of Logic: http://autio.github.io/projects/scienceoflogic/
on “Hegel Today” ↗But why?? ncatlab contains formalizations of many branches of philosophy, such as this on Hegel https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Science+of+Logic
on “Algebraic Semiotics (2020)” ↗…bad, or grinding the author's political axe (political in the sense of academic politics). If you learn by reading, read primary sources: Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel (the Science of Logic in particular), in that order, are basically what you need to get caught up to modernity in philosophy. After that, you should have a strong enough background to truly engage with whatever sub topic you…
on “Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy” ↗…philosophical argument which it entails. It is the simply the case that, Russel & Whitehead were themselves engaging with "Hegel" in Principia Mathematica, who of course had his own system of logic (cf. the Science of Logic), but they failed insofar as Godel's critique is accepted, and insofar as you accept Godel's critique you could make the inference (though by no means on an entirely solid basis) that Godel's work constitutes,…
on “The Dogma of Otherness (1986)” ↗Yes it can. Hegel did it in the Science of Logic
on “What happens when clergy take psilocybin” ↗…mathematics is the most developed, exacting, and articulate expression of Being. Logic was understood in this older sense up to roughly the the mid to late 19th century. This is why a work like Hegel's Science of Logic begins not with syllogisms or propositions but with Being and Nothing. But this was forgotten after logic was mathematized by the English around the time of Russell, and its connection to ontology was…
on ““Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically” ↗…remains largely unnoticed. Here we aim to give a transparent account of this perspective both philosophically as well as category-theoretically. We then further expand on Lawvere’s formalization of Hegel’s “Science of Logic” in terms of the categorical semantics given by cohesive higher toposes. We discuss how there is a useful formalization of a fair bit of modern fundamental physics, in fact of local gauge quantum field…
on “Nietzschian Debugger” ↗