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The absolute relation

David Gray Carlson

pp. 414-431

Abstract

Classically, Substance is "a subject of predication or bearer of attributes that cannot itself be borne by anything else. [It is] an enduring substratum of change."1 For Hegel Substance is the subsistence of semblance,2 "the final unity of essence and being." (555) Substance implies Appearance all the way down. There is no mysterious "beyond" that grounds Appearance. Appearance grounds itself. Appearance manifested – or Actuality – is finally in and for itself. Substance does nothing but manifest itself and it does this by erasing itself.3

Publication details

Published in:

Gray Carlson David (2007) A commentary to Hegel's science of logic. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 414-431

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598904_19

Full citation:

Gray Carlson David (2007) The absolute relation, In: A commentary to Hegel's science of logic, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 414–431.