The Hegelian Concept of Complexity as Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to propose a reevaluation of Hegel’s system of the Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences, simultaneously as a Science of Complexity and of the Spirit’s meaning as Freedom. According to the hypothesis proposed, the divisions of the Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of the Spirit of the system reveal preoccupations with the concrete manifestation of the Absolute, which in contemporary times only a term such as complexity is able to translate. Logic, on the other hand, presents the formal structures of the processes that the real parts of the system are going to uncover in their non-reducible diversity in contrast to the physicalist models. The chosen method was the semantic-conceptual analysis, within the textual economy of Hegel's system sketches, before 1817, and the Encyclopaedia.