Re: [HM] Query on Hegel on calculus
Graham White (graham@dcs.qmw.ac.uk)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 23:53:12 +0000
At 5:16 pm -0500 5/1/99, Val Dusek wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of recent, up-to-date scholarly discussion of Hegel's
> treatment of the calculus in the Logic? I know he got bashed for it
> by Russell and Whitehead, although Whitehead later learned his own
> philosophy resembled Hegel's in some ways.
>
One place it might be worth starting with is Harris' biography of
Hegel, which has a very detailed account of Hegel's education;
his favourite subject at high school, it seems, was physics,
and he had a good German high school education of that period,
so he'd probably have known calculus fairly well.
Graham White