ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the notion’s development in thought and as pure thought or, to use Hegel’s words, of thought ‘in the sense of the self-developing totality of its laws and peculiar terms’. It considers what Hegel says about the nature of the notion’s initiation into this developmental process. The chapter suggests that it is only at the completion of the developmental cycle making up the second part of the Science of Logic that the notion determines itself as that which seeks its realisation. The self-determining notion must construct its differentiated unity from the perspective of its truth. This means that it must engage in a process the result of which will be to arrive at the differentiated unity of the universal, the particular and the individual, this time as determined by the notion. The chapter demonstrates the merits of reading of the logical structure by indicating how it serves to explain transition points in the Logic.
