«The Science of Logic» and the Hegelian concept of spirit as «assumed nature»

The doctrine of the Idea, at the end of the Science of Logic, uses the notion of «spirit» to explain the nature of the Idea itself, whose logical determinations are, at the same time, spiritual ones. We intend to show in what sense the passages of the doctrine of the Idea referred to the «spirit» are far from having an episodic significance