“Natural Law, Life, and Logic sans Metaphysics,” is a conference paper submitted to the biennial conference of the Hegel Society of America in January 2014.
From the start of his academic career at Jena, “Logic and Metaphysics” was integral to the curricular offering that Hegel advertised under the rubric “Natural Law” (1801 to 1803), before he pedagogically separated them in his course offerings from 1804 onward. The pedagogical-curricular requirements frequently attributed to the discursive formation of Hegel’s system obscure the dialectical integrity of the interdisciplinary totality constituted by such seemingly different spheres as natural law, logic, and metaphysics. Hegel’s logical deduction of life as a system of reality determined by natural law which is persistently abrogated by the absolute negativity of living subjects resisting its formalism was itself self-referential, insofar as the subjectivity of resistance contributed to disclosing the contours of natural law’s corruption into formalism. His singular accomplishment was not only to locate the origin of formalism in philosophy’s abandonment of its metaphysical grounds, but to identify its epistemic status as a reflection of or proxy for the empiricism of the positive sciences.
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