Hegels Philosophie des Absoluten

In the »Doctrine of Being«, Hegel demonstrates that the infinite cannot be abstractly opposed to the finite, but has to contain the finite if it is not to be just a finite itself. However this does not mean that only everything which is finite should be dissolved in the absolute, since otherwise the absolute would just be the »night in which all cows are black,« nor on the other hand can the finite itself be declared the infinite. Thus the difficult problem Hegel has to solve is to develop a model in which the absolute is neither abstractly opposed to the finite nor identified with it in a trivial manner. Burkhard Nonnenmacher shows how Hegel's »Science of Logic« and his mature system attempt to solve this problem.