Sequence of Stages
Hegel (Philosophy of Nature)
The ordering of natural forms according to increasing self-relation.
Not meant
a temporal development. The dispute is not about the proceeding-from as such, but about whether it is to be grasped conceptually or temporally.
In Hegel
Enz. vol. 2, §§ 343–349
Cross-references
Metamorphosis · Genus · Nature
Der volle wortlaut
§ 249 says both things — that one stage "necessarily proceeds from the other" and that this does not mean "that the one would be naturally generated from the other."
Nicht gemeint
a temporal development. The dispute is not about the proceeding-from as such, but about whether it is to be grasped conceptually or temporally.
In den ersten auflagen
1817 §§ 267–273, 1827 § 348
Im buch
Part One, I and IV