diff --git a/content/hegel/reference/existence/development.mdx b/content/hegel/reference/existence/development.mdx index b9ddd06..7a1d7ca 100644 --- a/content/hegel/reference/existence/development.mdx +++ b/content/hegel/reference/existence/development.mdx @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ understood from the preceding despite its simplicity. But exactly this—which relates to the former matter about "transpiring"—reveals the glimmers, as it were, of a movement amidst this static determinacy. -#### Is the Whole an External Reflection (Niklas) +#### Is the Whole an External Reflection? (Niklas) Hegel notes that "The _whole_ is likewise in the form or _determinateness_ of being [is such] _for us, in our reflection_ (Hegel 2010, 84/21.97). Stephen Houlgate @@ -152,6 +152,20 @@ distinguishes _Dasein_ from pure, indeterminate _Sein_" (Houlgate 2022, 157). ## Further Commentary +### Burbidge + +John Burbidge's translation of _Dasein_ is _a being_, reasoning that _a being_ +is not the same as `being` since the former delimits the sense of the gerund, +such that the former is "in some way more specific" (Burbidge 1981, 46). The +task for the understanding is to distinguish the lack of determination in pure +`being` from the determination in _a being_. + +The determination is not different from its being, Burbidge writes, as "the +determination is rather the determinate way in which its being is present" +(Burbidge 1981, 46). The determination also does not distinguish one being from +another, since this would involve complexity that is not there in this +indefinite sense of _a being_. + ### Houlgate Stephen Houlgate provides his reasoning as to why, in `existence`, `being` is @@ -193,3 +207,15 @@ precisely). Houlgate uses "not", which seems to belong to the category of `negation`, and that is not derived at this stage in the _Logic_. In fact, `negation` becomes explicit in the section that follows this one, namely, the section on Quality. + +### McTaggart + +John McTaggart translates _Dasein_ as _being determinate_. He views the opening +section on _Dasein_, or `existence`, more as a heading of what is to come, +noting that genuine difference and contrast as now possible. Furthermore, he +notes the implications of this: "For whatever is anything must also not be +something, and cannot be what it is not. It must therefore not be something else +than what it is. And thus the reality of anything implies the reality of +something else" (McTaggart 1910, 21). While this more precise differentiation is +made explicit by quality, it is interesting to see intimations of categories +involving one another in the nature of determinateness, even in its immediacy. diff --git a/cspell.json b/cspell.json index 6283249..3d318cf 100644 --- a/cspell.json +++ b/cspell.json @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ { "version": "0.2", "ignorePaths": [ + "content/acknowledgements.mdx", "package.json", "package-lock.json", "node_modules",