Part of thread: The dialectic and determinate negation

Negation and the result

Feb 191 min read

The key phrase is "negation has a result." Empty negation would be scepticism that cancels everything and leaves nothing. Determinate negation produces the next concept. That is why the Logic can proceed immanently: each category, when thought through, turns into its successor.

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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

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The dialectic and determinate negation/u/averrois· 4 replies

Hegel's concept of determinate negation in the Logic: negation that preserves and elevates rather than merely cancels, and how it drives the movement of the concept.

On the misunderstanding of thesis–antithesis–synthesis/u/averrois· 1 reply
Why the thesis–antithesis–synthesis formula misrepresents Hegel's dialectic and what determinate negation actually does.
Agreed—and the role of the understanding/u/averrois
The understanding fixes; reason grasps the movement. A short follow-up on why the dialectic is not formalism.
Negation and the result/u/averrois
Why determinate negation is productive and how it drives the immanent progression of the Logic.
Relation to Spinoza and Fichte/u/averrois
How Hegel's determinate negation relates to Spinoza's determination-as-negation and Fichte's self-positing.
Reply to The dialectic and determinate negation/u/kojeve
A short reply on determinate negation and why the dialectic is not a formula.