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

At this meeting we'll continue discussing Chapter 2: Determinate Being, p. 109. We should have read up to C: Infinity, p,137. We have still to talk about many things leading up to the Infinity section.
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. We'll look at Part Two, Chapter 6: Quality, pages 135 to 156, in which Houlgate discusses being, nothing, and becoming. It is available here (link).
Also, Bill has posted on Discord, Chapter 1 from Nahum Brown's Hegel on Possibility, called "Hegel on Totality: From Being to Nothing," where Brown not only introduces his "Dialectical Totality" interpretation of the opening, but surveys and categorizes some other approaches. Bill has also added an outline of the chapter.
Another good essay, by Dieter Henrich, entitled Beginning and Method of (the) Logic, is available 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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