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Genus
?- 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')
- 131 The subjective Concept (formal Concept)
- 132 The Object (real Concept)
- 133 The Idea (adequate Concept)
- 1331 Life
- 1332 Finite Cognition
- 1333 Absolute idea (method)
- 13311 Living Individual
- 13312 Process of life
- 13313 Genus
Genus
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A central but ambiguous concept, which must be distinguished on two levels (see Ch. 19.5): 1. Logical/Abstract: In the Idea of Life (Ch. 19.4.3), "genus" designates the universal (U) that preserves itself through the generations in the process of self-sublation (e.g., the "scientific tradition," "institutional identity"). It is the abstract structure of continuity in transformation (preserving, overcoming, elevating). 2. Concrete/Philosophy of Nature: In the philosophy of real being (discussed by Hegel in Enc. §342, by us in Ch. 19.4.5), "genus" is the concrete biological process of reproduction (e.g., male-female genus). The logic (1) shows the universal form of self-sublation; nature (2) is its first concrete realization.
Origin: A biological concept that Hegel interprets logically: genus is the universal that individuates itself and renews itself in the process of the genus.
In Hegel: Enc. §220-222 (Logic); §342 (Nature)
Cross-references: Life, Idea, Self-sublation, Universal, Individual