The student of Hegel usually finds the Logic the most forbidding and impossible part of the System. At the same time he is aware, not merely from Hegel’s own statements, but from the general nature of Hegel’s philosophy, that unless he can discover the clue to the tale of the categories, Hegel’s System will remain for the most part a sealed secret. In his perplexity he generally abandons, after a short struggle, the effort to understand the System, and regards it either with contempt or despair according to his temperament | The Origin and Significance of Hegel s Logic A General Introduction to Hegel s System . Baillie Macmillian New York and London 1901 Batoche Books Kitchener 1999 Contents Chapter I Chapter II First Stage From 1797 to 1800 Hegel s Early Logic 22 Chapter III Second Stage From 1801 to Chapter IV Hegel and his Chapter V Transition Origin of The Phenomenology of Mind and ofthe Logic . 85 Chapter VI Third Stage From 1807 to 1812-16 The Phenomenol- ogy of Chapter VII The Phenomenology continued Phenomenology and Logic. 135 Chapter VIII Origin and Nature of the Content of the Logic. 150 Chapter IX Origin and Nature of the Method of the Logic. 175 Chapter X Relation of Logic to Chapter XI Retrospective The Historical Setting of Hegel s Logic .219 Chapter XII .
