"Hegel's logic requires our ordinary understanding to transform itself into dialectical thinking, but it sets out that process of transformation in a way that ordinary understanding can clearly understand. Hegel's logic is thus not some esoteric exercise in mystical thinking that can only be grasped by specially gifted initiates. It is the presuppositionless study of thought which is assessable and understandable by anyone who is prepared to be fully self-critical. Ordinary consciousness can understand the need for a presupposition - less logic and, as long as it is prepared to see its categories redefined, and see itself transformed in the process, it can understand the development of such a logic as well."
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Stephen Houlgate, An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History, 2nd ed. (2005), Chap. 2 : Thinking without Presuppositions
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 – 1831
deutscher Philosoph
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