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Other
?- 0 Hegel's 'System of Science'
- 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
- 2 Nature (science of matter)
- 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
- 11 Being (immediateness, 'Ontology')
- 12 Essence (mediation, reflection, metaphysics)
- 13 Concept (Notion / Logos / Comprehension, 'Begriff')
- 111 Determinateness (Quality)
- 112 Magnitude (Quantity)
- 113 Measure (qualitative Quantity)
- 1111 Indeterminate Being
- 1112 Being-there, determinate Being ('Dasein')
- 1113 Being for oneself/Being for itself (Für-sich-sein)
- 11121 [Being-there / determinate Being] as such
- 11122 Finitude
- 11123 Infinity
- 111211 [Being-there / determinate Being] in general
- 111212 Reality and Negation (Quality)
- 111213 That what is there, that what is determinate ('Daseiendes')
- 1112131 Something
- 1112132 Other
- 1112133 Change
Other
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The other is the determination of the something through demarcation. Something is determined only through its other --- not as an external addition, but constitutively. The relation something/other is completely symmetrical: what is "something" for me is "the other" for the other, and vice versa. The determination is relational, not absolute. Hegel's point: something cannot be thought in isolation --- it is always already in relation to the other. This reciprocal constitution is a productive circle, not an error. Example: "I" am only through demarcation from "you," "inside" only through "outside." The other is not mere negation, but the first form of relation.
Origin: Greek *heteron* (the other). Plato: *to heteron* as one of the *megista genē* (greatest kinds). Aristotle: *pros ti* (relation to another). Hegel radicalizes: the other is not external, but belongs to the determination of the something itself.
In Hegel: Enc. §92; SL Vol. 1, Quality
Cross-references: Something, Determination, Negation, Boundary, Relation, Existence (Dasein), Logic of Being