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It grounds the method in the Science of Logic, presenting it as an “absolute method of knowing” that enables philosophy to be an objective, demonstrated science. Hegel’s dialectic is explained as expounding fundamental categories: analysis reveals implicit self-contradiction, generates contraries, and resolves them into a higher category through determinate negation and aufgehoben. The structure is illustrated via the Logic’s opening shift from Being to Nothing and back through necessary progression.","THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE METHOD  \nTHE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HEGEL, Fredrick C. Beiser  \nSometimes commentators go as far as to deny that Hegel has or aspires to a dialectical method at all. For example, Solomon writes: \"Hegel has no method as such . . . Hegel himself argues vehemently against the very idea of a philosophical 'method. \" To see how deeply mistaken this view must be, one need go no further than the first edition preface of the Science of Logic, where Hegel gives a description of what he calls his \"absolute method of knowing\" and says that it is only by way of this method that philosophy is able to be \"an objective, demonstrated science. \"  \nMany more interpreters characterize Hegel's method in terms that simply remain too vague. For example, according to Acton, it is \"a method in which oppositions, conflicts, tensions, and refutations [are] courted rather than avoided or evaded. \" And according to Popper, it is the theory that something, such as human thought, develops in accordance with the pattern\"thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis.\" The problem with these characterizations is not that they are false. In particular, the 'thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis' model does capture the intended general structure of the method reasonably well; Hegel does not, as Kaufmann claims, \"deliberately spurn\" and \"deride\" this model in the preface of the Phenomenology of Spirit (or anywhere else). The problem is just that such characterizations remain too vague to be of much help. A first step toward eliminating this vagueness is to recognize that the dialectic of the Logic enjoys a certain primacy over the dialectics of the Philosophies of Nature and Spirit and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel understands the dialectics ofthe latter three disciplines to be just the dialectic of the Logic as it appears through the media of natural phenomena, spiritual phenomena and consciousness (respectively) . For the pure thought, which is the subject matter of the Logic, \"encompasses [everything natural and everything spiritual] and is the foundation of everything\"; and the development of consciousness, \"like the development of all natural and spiritual life, rests solely on the nature of the pure essentialities which constitute the content of Logic. \" If we wish to determine the character of Hegel's dialectic, then, we will do well to focus on the form it takes in his Logic.  \nIn the Logic, the dialectic is essentially a method of expounding our fundamental categories (understood in a broad sense to include not only our fundamental concepts but also our forms of judgment and forms of syllogism) . It is a method of exposition in which each category in turn is shown to be implicitly self-contradictory and to develop necessarily into the next (thus  \nforming a continuously connected hierarchical series culminating in an all-embracing category that Hegel calls the Absolute Idea) .  \nIn order to form a more precise picture of the intended structure of the method, we must look to Hegel's general accounts of it in the Science of Logic and Logic of the Encyclopaedia. Consider, for example, the following general account from the Logic of the Encyclopaedia:\"The logical has in point of form three sides . . . These three sides do not constitute three parts of the Logic, but are moments of each logical reality, that is, of each concept... a) Thought, as the Understanding, sticks to finite determinacies and their distinctness from one another . . . b) The dialectical moment is the self-sublation of such finite determinations and their transition into their opposites . . . c) The speculative moment, or that of positive Reason, apprehends the unity of the determinations in their opposition - the affirmative that is contained in their dissolution and transition.\" (Note that Hegel affirms this pattern for each logical reality or concept.)  \nIf one takes these general accounts of the method together, the following emerges as its intended general structure. 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