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This book compares critical philosophy to Scholasticus’s “wise resolution” to not enter the water until he’d learned to swim. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1812 book with sections on Being, Essence, and Concept. This G.W.F. Hegel book calls its title discipline a “realm of shadows” and rejects the law of non-contradiction.
ANSWER: Science of Logic [or Wissenschaft der Logik; or WdL; accept the Greater Logic, the Shorter Logic, the Lesser Logic, or the Encyclopedia Logic; prompt on Hegel’s Logic or the Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]
[10h] In the Shorter Logic, Hegel uses this phrase to describe the unity of the “absolute idea.” Give the original Greek, or a reasonable translation, for this repetitious definition of God’s activity from Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
ANSWER: thought thinking itself [or noesis noeseos noesis; or thought of thought; accept answers that repeat word forms of thinking or understanding twice or three times; accept self-thinking or thinking about itself]
[10e] Hegel’s Logic arrives at “pure thought,” which he modestly compares to God “in his essence before the creation of nature,” via this method. The stages of this method are often called thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
ANSWER: dialectics [or Hegelian dialectic]
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