Hegel's Science of Logic (Book 1: The Doctrine of Being)

At this meeting we'll begin discussing Chapter 2: Determinate Being, p. 109, but we will start with a brief discussion of The Expression "To Sublate", which appears at the end of the Chapter 1, on p. 106. Everyone should start reading Chapter 2, since we might get as far as B: Finitude, p.116.

At the end of the meeting we'll be talking about Stephen Houlgate's On Being: Quality and the Birth of Quantity in Hegel's 'Science of Logic' , Vol. 1. Once again, we will be talking about Chapter 4: Method in Speculative Logic, pages 59-99. It is available here (link).
Also, a good essay which addresses the most important questions that arise in the first chapter of the Logic can be found here:

During the meetings we'll be using the Miller translation. The pdf of the Miller can be found here (link).

Hegel's Science of Logic (1812–1816) is a landmark in German idealism and a radical rethinking of logic as the living structure of reality itself. Rather than treating logic as a neutral tool or set of rules, Hegel presents it as the dynamic structure of reality and self-consciousness. He develops a system of dialectical reasoning in which concepts evolve through contradictions and their resolutions. In contrast to his early collaborator and philosophical rival Friedrich Schelling, who emphasized the role of intuition and nature in the Absolute, Hegel insists that pure thought — developed immanently from itself — is the true foundation of metaphysics. The work is divided into three major parts: Being, Essence, and Concept (or Notion), each tracing the development of increasingly complex categories of thought. For Hegel, logic is not abstract or static; it is the unfolding of the Absolute, the rational core of existence.

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This is a discussion group for Hegel's Science of Logic. We have read several of Friedrich Schelling's works, including Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809), Ages of the World (c. 1815), and the Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology (1845), Anyone with an interest in philosophy is free to join in the meetings.

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