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In the first section of this very dense chapter Hegel attempts to show that determine being first proves to be quality, which then splits into reality and negation. The dialectic of these determinatenesses leads to the category of something, which is limited and negated by its other. The conception of the limit of the something leads to the conception of finite being, which proves to be unstable. The result of this instability is the self-contradictory spurious infinite. This contradiction is resolved in the true infinite, which is the sublated unity of the finite and the infinite. Such an infinite unity is called “being-for-itself.”
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Tabak, M. (2017). Determinate Being. In: The Doctrine of Being in Hegel’s Science of Logic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55938-4_3
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