The question with which Hegel puts science in question, viz., “With what must science begin?” is rhetorical in a way that is seldom explored in Hegel studies. Hegel discovered in the sophistics of Gorgias a mode of immediate knowledge that is at once a “dialectic…of a quite objective kind” and a rhetorical stratagem with speculative implications for how to begin logical science, i.e., science of the logos. Gorgias’ discourse on the aporetics of being and non-being is equally an aporetic discourse on knowing which is doubly advantageous for Hegel’s speculative ends in that it is sourced from Gorgias’ immediate knowing of immediate indeterminacy unmediated by the universals of the philosophers. In short, logical science (qua science of the logos) begins with the ancient semiotic science of the logos – sophistical rhetoric.
Fo the 2016 Biennial Hegel Society of America Conference, Montreal, Canada
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