Hegel's Critique of Essence

<p>This volume shows how <em>The Doctrine of Essence</em> intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all the relationship between freedom and determinism. <em>The Doctrine of Essence</em> is of central importance since it is a critical description of traditional categories which also functions as the justification of Hegel's speculative understanding of essence. </p><p>This study takes an historical approach to build upon Hegel's abstract argument viewing it as a confrontation with his predecessors inparticular - Fichte and Schelling. </p>