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(6) Logic of the Pure Idea. This is the name given by Hegel to his system.

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will be sufficient for us to advert in the briefest manner to this philosophy,
with which we are only concerned because of its bearing on Modern Logic.
Its salient feature is the identification of Logic and Metaphysics. Hegel
would not admit the existence of two orders - an order of thought and an
order of reality. Thought, according to him, constitutes reality. Hence the
science of the real - Metaphysics, is to be found in Logic - the science of
thought: "Logic in our sense coincides with Metaphysics" (Wallace, Logic of
Hegel, p. 38). The Universe has its origin in the inner necessity of the
categories of thought. But thought in its fullest development - the thought of
the Whole or the Absolute Idea passes over into reality. Thought becomes
things, and realizes itself as the universe which we know.
Hegelianism is in fact a form of Pantheism. In it things are thoughts, and
these thoughts are a Divine Mind evolving itself in the process of the
Universe.

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