The circularity of Hegel's logic and the problem of the beginning

• Grant number: 18/05655-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Severino Nobre
• Grantee: Dalmiro Schwartz Lara
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/21811-3 - The transition from the Doctrine of Being to the Doctrine of Essence, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

Based on the way the modern perplexity (Verlegenheit) about the beginning (Anfang) of philosophy is treated in the text With what must the science begin?, by Hegel, this research has the objective of studying interpretative differences which are present in the recent Hegelian studies of what is the circularity of Hegel's logical science about; and also how each of these interpretations culminates in a distinct comprehension of the Hegelian resolution of such perplexity about the beginning, namely: the thesis of the coexistence of mediation and immediacy in every logical proposition and, therefore, also in the logical beginning. Once the differences between such interpretations have been analyzed and systematized, we will try to confront them with texts of the philosopher to examine which one is more faithful to him. (AU)