Science of Logic

—the highest principle, that objectivity is to be understood as that which is contrasted with subjectivity, cannot be easily teased out; and in general, the Concept and the logical are declared to be something merely formal which, because it abstracts from content, does not contain the truth.

As for that first relationship of the understanding or the Concept to the stages presupposed by it, it depends on which science is being treated in order to determine the form of those stages. In our science, as pure Logic, these stages are Being and Essence Being and Essence are the titles of the first two volumes of Hegel’s "Science of Logic." He argues that we must understand what a thing "is" (Being) and what its "hidden nature" is (Essence) before we can reach the "Concept.". In psychology, these are feeling and intuition, and then representation in general, which are sent ahead of the understanding. In the Phenomenology of Spirit, as the doctrine of consciousness, one ascended to the understanding through the stages of sensory consciousness and then perception. Kant sends only feeling and intuition ahead of it. How incomplete this ladder of stages initially is, he himself admits by recognizing that he must add—as an appendix to his transcendental logic or doctrine of the understanding—a further treatise on the concepts of reflection original: "Reflexionsbegriffe". These are terms like identity, difference, and opposition, which Kant placed in an appendix called the "Amphiboly of Concepts of Reflection."; — a sphere that lies between intuition and the understanding, or between Being and the Concept.

Regarding the matter itself, it should first be noted that those shapes of intuition, representation, and the like belong to the self-conscious spirit, which as such is not considered within logical science. The pure determinations determinations (Bestimmungen): the specific qualities, boundaries, or characteristics that define a logical category's identity. of Being, Essence, and the Concept do indeed form the foundation and the simple inner scaffold of the forms of spirit; spirit as intuiting as well as sens— The text cuts off mid-word ("sinn-"); it likely intended "sinnlich" (sensory) or "sinnend" (meditating/thinking).