Abstract

To the question of the beginning Hegel gives three answers. The major texts in which he elaborates them are: the section in the Science of Logic entitled "With What Must the Beginning of Science Be Made?"; the early stages of science proper in the Encyclopedia ; within science proper, the late stages of the philosophy of Logos and the philosophy of Spirit; the "Preface" of the Phenomenology of Spirit; and the late section on absolute Knowledge in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Other texts also mention something on the question, especially the introductions to his lectures, but they add nothing essential to the published works. Part One of this communication will offer an account of the three beginnings of Hegelian science.