The Nature and Contemporary Use of Hegel's Logic

380 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.In Chapter Four I argue that speculative logic can solve and remain invulnerable to longstanding problems in traditional skepticism, especially the more powerful ancient type. Skepticism is effective because its arguments against philosophical claims are implicitly structured according to underlying logical determinations of the types Hegel describes. Skeptical conundrums correspond to the local opposition between the first two moments of dialectical triads, but I show that these moments are only two unintegrated halves of a superior logical structure. In this way, Hegel's logic is able to explain and beat skepticism on a deeper level.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD