Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts)

mainly in its method of piocedure It must be understood at the outset that the philosophic way of advancing from one matter to another, the fteneral spefulative method, which is the only kind of scientific proof available in jdiilosophy, is essentially different fiom even' other Only a < lear iiisntht into the necessitv for this difference can snatch pliilosophv out of the i£;nominious condition into which it has fallen in our dav Tiue, the logical rules, such as those of definition, dassification, and inference aie non geneially lecogui/ecl to be inadeciiiate for speculatiK- s. leuce Pei haps it is ncaier the iiiaik to say that the iiiadeijuacy of the inles has been felt rathei than recogni/ed, because- thev have been counted as ineie fetters, and llnowu asicle to make loom foi fiee speech from the heart, tauc^y and laudoiu intuition. But when reflection and ic-l.itions ol thought wcie lecpiiied. peopleunconsciou.slv tell back upon the old-fashioiii-d method of mfeiencc- ami formal leasoning — In my “ Seience of Logic” I haie dc-velo|>c-d the natuie of speculative scienciin detail Hence in this tieatise an explanation of method will be added only lieic- and Ihcic- In a woik winch is conciete, and jnc-sc-iits such a dnersity of phases, we mai safely iieglc-ct to clisplav at evciy turn the logical piocess and mav take ioi gi,iiitc*d an ac cpiaiutaiieo with the scientifac piocecliire Besides, it may leadily be observed that the- work as a whole, and also the construction of the [),iits, lest upon the logical spirit Fioiii this standpoint, esjjccially, is it that I would like this tieatise to he iiiiderstoocl ami ]udgod In such a woik as this we are dealing with a s( ic-m e, and in a science the mattei must not bes<-pai,itecl fiom the fonn