[blog]On Hegel’s Project in the Science of Logic

It is the work of the logician to penetrate through the arbitrary order of experience and see into the necessary logical conceptual relations and developments as a specific systematic and unitary organic whole.

How did you come to this conclusion? Hegel specifically argues against corporatism, as does Gabriel, who you also cite, even in, as you specified, the context of the Logic, not empirical objects in general. The problem of experience for Hegel is not how to deduce unity from the appearance of arbitrariness, but the opposite: how to isolate and reduce organic experience in all its richness to singular categories.

This is of course related to the status of appearance: logical elements which seem to reveal an underlying essence in truth retroactively generate the essence (appearance is essence insofar as appearance generates the illusion of underlying essence); I'm probably unintentionally quoting Gabriel here, who spends a lot of time on this topic.

Hence, rather than "completion" it's more accurate to term the Hegelian Absolute "incompletion." The Absolute is the completion or concluding moment of Hegel's system, but the result is necessarily and constitutively a failure. The Spirit that knows itself completely knows its constitutive incompleteness; Absolute knowing includes its own ignorance. Insofar as

from the Absolute standpoint all other things are relative and are objectively inferior, false, or incomplete in kind by failing to live up to the Absolute’s complete self-determination,

the Absolute itself is likewise false, incomplete, failed. The Absolute contains its point non-closure.

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