¿Metafísica o Lógica? La significación de Spinoza para la Ciencia de la Lógica de Hegel Metaphysics or Logic? The significance of Spinoza for the Science of Logic of Hegel

Abstract

Is Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik to be understand as a new project of metaphysics or as a new project of logic? Within this open discussion the article argues for the thesis that Hegel’s intention is a post-metaphysical one. In supporting this thesis Hegel’s alleged «refutation» of Spinoza in the logic of being and the logic of essence is of crucial importance. With Jacobi in background the article shows how Hegel is consciously presenting a thoroughgoing misinterpretation of Spinoza’s metaphysics with the aim of transforming Spinoza’s ontology into an epistemological process of systemic thinking. In contrast to Hegel’s own conviction the problematic consequences of this transformation are finally mentioned.