Hegel's Actuality Chapter of the Science of Logic

This book explores Hegels theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency) through extremely close textual analysis of the Actuality chapter of Hegels Science of Logic. The Actuality chapter is the equivalence of Aristotles momentous Metaphysics book 9. Because of this, Hegels chapter deserves the same thorough investigation into its complex insights and argumentation. This book situates Hegels insights about possibility and necessity within historical and contemporary debates about metaphysics, while analyzing some of the most controversial themes of Hegels theory, such as the question of the ontological status of unactualized possibilities, the relationship between contradiction and possibility, and the claim that necessity leads to freedom. This book also contributes to an ongoing philosophical inquiry into the nature of dialectics by articulating Hegels Actuality chapter as a coherent argument divided into twenty-seven premises.