Abstract

The recent appearance of a new translation of The Encyclopedia Logic has provided me with a welcome opportunity to return once again to the study of this little treasure. I shall not challenge the judgment that one must give pride of place to Hegel’s Science of Logic in seeking to understand his account of das Logische. But my heart belongs to the “Lesser Logic,” and I will not challenge its love in the name of that judgment. If only Kant’s “Lesser First Critique” had been half as successful as this jewel! However “politically correct” it may be to bow and scrape before “the full argument,” my heart and I know that we are not alone. Who knows, we may even be the silent majority!