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> <p>1. Sein and Reflexion: the Historical Antecedents of the Logic 2. The Critique of Subjective Idealism 3. Ground and its 'going to the ground': the Attack on <br>Substratum? Metaphysics 4. The Critique of the Scientific World-Picture 5. A Newton of a blade of grass (from substance to subject)? 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index</p>