Externality

Hegel (Philosophy of Nature)

The falling-apart of determinations — the fundamental determination of nature.

In Hegel

Enz. vol. 2, §§ 326–336

Cross-references

Natur · Sequence of Stages · Fourness

Warum die natur äußerlich ist

Neuser explains it from the form of the syllogism. In logic, the particular mediates; in the philosophy of nature, the singular mediates. Where the singular mediates, "the one extreme does not pass over into the other as its boundary, but persists alongside it."

Was daraus folgt

Nature is left to contingency; its forms cannot be derived without gaps. Hegel draws the consequence himself: philosophy shows the order, not the specimen.

In den ersten auflagen

1817 § 260

Im buch

Part One, I; Part Two, VII