ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what motivates Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel toward both of the commitments in order to help render more comprehensible Hegel’s views on logic more generally. It explores how Hegel himself takes his own conception to flow quite naturally out of deeper reflection on a fairly traditional conception of logic that was broadly advocated among Hegel’s predecessors, including Immanuel Kant, and also among Hegel’s contemporaries. On this conception, logic should be understood as the science of ‘thinking. The chapter shows that Hegel’s own understanding of the history of the development of the philosophy of logic is what leads him, first, to his ostensibly over-enriched conception of logic. Since he thinks the tradition itself shows that all of the aforementioned ‘determinations’ are required to present the essence of thinking itself, and so they must all be counted as ‘logical’.
