The Doctrine of Being in Hegel’s Science of Logic pp 101-125 | Cite as
Being-for-Itself
Abstract
In the first section of this chapter, Hegel defines being-for-itself as the one. In the second section, he maintains that the one logically passes over into the many, with which it is identical. He calls both this passing over and the many “repulsion.” Since the many ones are deemed identical, the many coalesce into the one again. Hegel calls both this process and the one “attraction.” In the third section, we find the alternating determination of repulsion and attraction. In this process, Hegel discovers the identity of repulsion and attraction, which again gives us the infinite being-for-itself. The main idea proposed here is that the mode of determining we find in this perpetual alternation proves to be a quantitative mode of determining.
Keywords
True Infinity Quantitative Mode Philosophy History Infinite Process Leibnizian IdealismReferences
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