Comments on Kosok’s Interpretation of Hegel’s Logic

Abstract

Kosok’s interpretation as well as philosophic endorsement of Hegelian logic and dialectic does not even pretend to rest on a painstaking examination of Hegel’s logic in its entirety, but rather upon what Kosok considers to be “a few fundamental statements appearing in the beginning of Hegel’s Science of Logic..., which clearly and unambiguously set forth his entire gestalt” (p. 312). Examining the handful of sentences Kosok quotes I do not find anything like an entire Gestalt of Hegel’s logic or dialectic set forth, not even set forth unclearly and ambiguously. But rather than quibble about what can or cannot be ‘found’ in these eight sentences or sentence fragments, I would like to deal directly with Kosok’s conception of Hegel’s logic.