Note: these tables are presented here roughly in the order in which they become relevant to the text; we begin with the Hegel background.
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Table of Correspondences |
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Hegel’s Science of Logic Categories (in Triads)
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Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic Categories (in Triads)
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Immanent Logic of the Value Form (in Triads)
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Systematic-Dialectical Presentation Table |
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Dialectic of the Value Form (in Triads)
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Presentation of Logical Categories of the Value Form |
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Presentation of the Categories of the Value Form: Capital in Its Notion |
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Tables of Absence and Presence |
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The Forms of Value |
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Price |
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Metamorphoses of Money |
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System of Industrial Capital |
1 Table of Correspondences
Hegel Encyclopaedia §18
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Logic: The Science of the Idea in and for Itself,
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The Philosophy of Nature; the Science of the Idea in Its Otherness,
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The Philosophy of Spirit; as the Idea Come Back to Itself out of that Otherness.
Arthur
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Value Form: as the Science of Capital in Its Notion,
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Capital Relation: Capital and Its Other,
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Capital as Systemic Unity.
Hegel Encyclopaedia §83
Logic falls into three parts:
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The Doctrine of Being,
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The Doctrine of Essence,
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The Doctrine of the Concept and the Idea.
That is, into the theory of Thought in:
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Its Immediacy: The Concept Implicit and in Germ,
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Its Reflection and Mediation: The Being-for-Itself and Show of the Concept,
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Its Return into Itself and Its Developed Being-by-Itself: The Concept In-and-for-Itself.
Arthur
The dialectic of the value form falls into three parts:
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Commodity,
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Money,
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Capital.
That is, into the theory of Exchange in:
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Its Immediacy: Value Implicit and in Germ,
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Its Reflection and Mediation: Value for-Itself, the Showing-Forth of Value,
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Its Return into Itself, and Its Development of Itself: Self-Valorisation.
Hegel: Logic |
Arthur: Dialectic of the Value Form |
I. The Doctrine of Being |
I.Commodity |
A. Quality |
A. Exchangeable commodities |
B. Quantity |
B. Quantity of commodities |
C. Measure |
C. Exchange-value of commodities |
II. The Doctrine of Essence |
II. Money |
A. Intro-reflection |
A. Value-in-itself |
B. Appearance |
B. Forms of Value |
C. Actuality |
C. Money |
III. The Doctrine of Concept |
III. Capital (General Formula) |
A. Subjectivity |
A. Price |
B. Objectivity |
B. Metamorphoses of commodities (C–M–C′) |
C. The Idea |
C. Capital (M–C–M′) |
2 Hegel’s Science of Logic Categories (in Triads)
Hegel’s Science of Logic – 1 Being
(Pure) Being |
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Being |
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Nothing |
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Becoming |
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Determinate Being |
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Quality |
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Determinate Being |
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Finitude |
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Infinity |
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Being-for-Itself as such |
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Being-for-Itself |
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One & Many |
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Repulsion/Attraction |
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(Pure) Quantity |
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Quantity |
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Quantum |
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Quantitative Ratio |
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Specific Quantum |
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Specific Quantity |
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Specifying Measure |
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Being-for-Itself in Measure |
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Relation of Stable Measures |
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Measure |
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Real Measure |
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Nodal Line of Measure Relations |
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The Measureless |
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The Becoming of Essence (Indifference) |
Hegel’s Science of Logic – 2 Essence
Essence as Reflection into Self |
Essential/Unessential |
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Show |
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Show |
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Reflection |
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Determinations of Reflection |
Identity |
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Difference |
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Contradiction |
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Absolute Ground (Form) |
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Ground |
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Determined Ground |
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Condition |
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Existence (The Thing) |
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Appearance |
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Appearance |
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Whole/Part |
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(Essential) Relationship |
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Force/Expression |
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Outer and Inner |
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The Absolute |
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Contigency |
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Actuality |
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Actuality |
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Relative Necessity |
Absolute Necessity |
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Of Substance |
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Absolute Relation |
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Of Causality |
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Reciprocity |
Hegel’s Science of Logic – 3 Concept
Universal |
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Subjectivity |
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The Concept |
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Particular |
Singular |
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Judgement of Existence |
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Judgement |
Judgement of Reflection |
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Judgement of Necessity |
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Judgement of the Concept |
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Syllogism |
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Mechanism |
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Objectivity |
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Chemism |
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Teleology |
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Living Individual |
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Life |
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Life Process |
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Genus |
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The Idea of the True |
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The Idea |
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The Idea of Cognition |
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The Idea of the Good |
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Absolute Idea |
3 Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic Categories (in Triads)
Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences
Being |
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Logic |
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Essence |
Concept |
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Mechanics |
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Nature |
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Physics |
Organics |
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Subjective Spirit |
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Spirit |
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Objective Spirit |
Absolute Spirit |
Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic – 1 Being
Pure Being |
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Being |
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Nothing |
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Becoming |
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Quality |
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Determinate Being |
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One |
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Being-for-Itself |
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Many |
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Repulsion/Attraction |
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Pure Quantity |
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Quantity |
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Quantum |
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Degree |
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Rule |
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Measure |
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Measureless |
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True Infinite of Measure |
Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic – 2 Essence
Identity |
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Ground of Existence |
Pure Determinations Of Reflection |
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Difference |
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Ground |
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Existence |
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The Thing |
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World of Appearance |
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Appearance |
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Content and Form |
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Whole/Part |
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(Essential) Relationship |
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Force/Expression |
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Inner/Outer |
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Possibility |
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Actuality |
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Contingency |
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Of Substance |
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Necessity (Absolute Relationship) |
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Of Causality |
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Reciprocity |
Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic – 3 Concept
Universality |
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Concept as Such |
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Particularity |
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Singularity |
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Subjective Concept |
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Judgement |
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Syllogism |
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Mechanism |
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The Object |
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Chemism |
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Teleology |
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Living Entity |
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The Idea |
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Life |
Life Process |
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Genus |
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Cognition |
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Cognition |
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Willing |
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Absolute Idea |
4 Immanent Logic of the Value Form (in Triads)
The Immanent Logic of the Value-Form – 1 Being
Nothing |
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Being |
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Pure Being |
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Becoming |
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Something and Other |
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Quality |
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Determinate Being |
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Spurious Infinity |
True Infinity |
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Being-for-Itself |
One/Many/Totality |
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Pure Quantity |
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Unit |
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Quantity |
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Quantum |
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Number |
A Number of Units |
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Ratio of Quanta |
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Rule |
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Measure |
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Series of Specific Measures |
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Infinite Unity of Measure-Relations |
The Immanent Logic of the Value-Form – 2 Essence
Reflection |
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Pure Determinations Of Reflection |
Identity |
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Intro-reflection |
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Difference |
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Contradiction |
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Ground |
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The Thing |
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Existence |
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Form (and Content) |
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Law |
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Appearance |
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Worlds of Appearance |
Force and Expression |
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Correlation |
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Possibility |
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Actuality |
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Modality |
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Contingency |
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Necessity |
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Absolute Identity |
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Absolute Form |
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Exposition |
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Reciprocity |
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Oneness |
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Substance |
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Substance in Immediacy |
Extension |
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Finite Modes |
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Absolute Relation of |
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Form/Content |
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Infinite Unity of Substance |
The Immanent Logic of the Value-Form – 3 Concept
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The Notion |
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Particular |
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Singular |
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Formal Judgement |
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Subjectivity |
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Judgement |
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Categorical Judgement |
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Judgement of the Concept |
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Syllogism |
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“Mechanism” |
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Objectivity |
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“Chemism” |
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Teleology |
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The Individual |
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Living Indvidual |
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The Idea |
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“Life” |
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Life Process |
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Generation |
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Absolute Idea |
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The Idea in Itself |
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Practical Idea |
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The Idea of Cognition |
Theoretical Idea |
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Realised Idea |
5 Systematic-Dialectical (SD) Presentation Table
Systematic-Dialectical (SD) presentation table
Analytical dialectic |
Synthetical dialectic |
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Starting Point |
Commodity: its prevalence is a given to be posited as result |
Value: the pervasive totalising form posited as grounded on itself through SD |
Movement |
Uncovering of necessary conditions of existence (CoE) then posited |
Development of grounds sufficient to posit the starting point |
Sublation |
CoEs are sublated when posited as ‘idealised’ by SD |
Presuppositions are sublated through the grounding movement of SD |
Positing the Presupposition |
CoEs are posited through the SD |
Grounds posit sequentially the actuality of what they presuppose |
Result |
All CoEs are subsumed in the system as it reproduces itself |
The whole grounds its moments when developed in a hierarchical system of determinations |
6 Dialectic of the Value Form (in Triads)
Dialectic of the Value Form – 1 Commodity
Being Present in Exchange |
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Quality of Being Exchangeable |
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Exchangeableness |
An Exchangeable |
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Quantity of Commodities |
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Infinite Unity of All Exchangeables |
Number of Commodities to Be Exchanged in a Transaction |
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Ratio of Exchange |
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Pro-rata exchange |
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Exchange-Value |
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Series of Exchange-Values |
Infinite Unity of Measures |
Dialectic of the Value Form – 2 Money
Value as Immanent Exchangeability |
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Intro-Reflection of Value |
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Reflex-Determinations of Value |
Value Is in the Commodity |
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Value Is Not in the Commodity |
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Value Is/Is-Not in the Commodity |
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Value Grounded in the Value-Form |
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Value as Appearance |
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Value as Existent |
(Value as Form & as Content. Value as Law) |
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Simple Form ‘Form I’ |
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Expression of Value |
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Expanded Form ‘Form II’ |
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General Form ‘Form III’ |
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Correlative Totalities of Value |
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Value as Actuality Is Money |
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Modality of Equivalent Form: Total Form ‘Form IV’ |
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Possible Any Commodity May Be Money |
Contingency of Money Commodity |
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Actuality of Money Is Necessary |
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Money as Absolute Form of Value |
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Exchangeability in Immediacy Money |
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Form of Value ‘Form V’ |
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Immediate Exchangeability Laying Out of |
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Money ‘Form VI’ |
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Reciprocity of Form-Determinations |
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Value as Substance |
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Value as Substance in Immediacy |
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– Oneness of Money |
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– Dimensionality of Value |
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– Money as Measure |
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Value as substance of commodities, |
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Money as their Real measure |
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Infinite Unity of Value Substance ‘Form VII’ |
Dialectic of the Value Form – 3 Capital
Capital |
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Universality of Value |
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The Notion |
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Amount |
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An Amount |
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Price |
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Judgement of Worth |
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Transitivity of Price |
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Exchange and Circulation |
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Immediate Exchange |
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Sale and Purchase |
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Metamorphoses of Commodities and Money |
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End of Exchange |
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Capital |
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Money as Money |
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Means of Payment |
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Fund |
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Money as Capital |
General Formula |
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Capital as Idea |
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Accumulation |
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Formal Determination (Subsumption/Valuation) |
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Capital Realised in Contradiction |
7 Presentation of Logical Categories of the Value Form
These categories are drawn from Hegel’s two Logics, but selected, and ordered, with a view to the presentation of the value-form dialectic; the numbering system is my own.
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Being
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Essence
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3 |
Concept
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8 Presentation of the Categories of the Value Form: Capital in Its Notion
1 |
Commodity
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2 |
Money
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3 |
Capital
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9 Tables of Absence and Presence
Absence and presence in exchange
‘production’ |
exchange |
‘consumption’ |
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A: real being (use-value) |
present |
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absented |
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present |
B: ideal being (in exchange) |
absent |
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present |
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absent |
Being-in-exchange and its other
‘production’ |
exchange |
‘consumption’ |
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(use-value) non-being |
⇐ |
Being (‘in exchange’) |
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non-being (use-value) |
Dialectic of Being-in-Exchange
as Absence |
as Presence |
as Presence of Absence |
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Nothing |
⇌ |
Being |
⇒ |
Nothingness |
10 The Forms of Value
Form I The Simple Form of Value
z of commodity A expresses its value in y of commodity B
Form II The Expanded Form of Expression of Value
z of commodity A expresses its value in |
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y of commodity B |
or x of commodity C |
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or w of commodity D |
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or so on and so forth |
Form III The General Form of Value
y of commodity B |
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express their value in z of commodity A |
and x of commodity C |
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and w of commodity D |
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and so on and so forth |
Form IV The Total Form of Expression of Value
1) The total expanded form
The value of zA is yB or xC or wD etc.
or The value of yB is zA or xC or wD etc.
or The value of xC is zA or yB or wD etc.
or etc.
2) The total general form
The value of yB and xC and wD etc. is zA
or The value of zA and xC and wD etc. is yB
or The value of zA and yB and wD etc. is xC
or etc.
Form V The Money Form of Value: Exchangeability in Immediacy
20 yard of linen |
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express their value in an ounce of gold |
1 coat |
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40 lbs. of coffee |
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10 lbs. of tea |
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Half a ton of iron |
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etc. |
Form VI: The Form of Immediate Exchangeability or the Laying-Out of Money
an ounce of gold is immediately exchangeable for |
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20 yards of linen |
and 1 coat |
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and 40 lbs of coffee |
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and half a ton of iron |
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and so on |
Form VII: The Substantial Form of Value
a units of A |
is worth |
z of money |
b units of B |
is worth |
y of money |
c units of C |
is worth |
x of money |
d units of D |
is worth |
w of money |
etc. |
is worth |
… |
A & B & C & D … together |
are worth |
the sum of z + y + x + w … |
NB Thus, A & B & C & D together are worth n, a single sum of money, where n is the sum of z + y + x + w …
11 Price
1. Value in Its Notion
Universality |
(value all pervasive) |
Particularity |
(= amount) |
Singularity |
(= an amount) |
2. Judgement of Worth: This commodity A is worth $x
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Formal Judgement
a) of Quality b) of Quantity
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Categorical Judgement
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Judgement of the Concept
3. Transitivity of Price
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Syllogism of Abstraction
if A is worth $x
& B is worth $x
then A is worth what B is worth
so A = B i.e. equal in price
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Syllogism of Equality (of Price)
if A = B, & B = C, then A = C
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Syllogism of Syllogisms
if A = B & B = C then A = C
if C = A & A = B then C = B
if B = C & C = A then B = A
12 The Metamorphoses of Money
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circulation |
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Exchanges of agent W: |
C–M–C′ |
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Exchanges of agent X: |
C′–M–C″ |
consumption |
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production |
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Exchanges of agent Y: |
C″–M–C‴ |
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circulation |
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circulation |
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Exchanges of agent W: |
C–M–C′ |
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Exchanges of agent X: |
C′–M–C″ |
consumption |
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production |
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Exchanges of agent Y: |
C″–M–C |
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Exchanges of agent W: |
C–M–C′ |
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circulation |
13 The System of Industrial Capital
Reflection into self |
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Universality |
Particularity |
Singularity |
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Reflection into other |
(self-identity) |
(difference ‘within’ capital) |
(self-relation) |
Universality (capital as such reflected into itself) |
The Rate of Surplus Value |
The metamorphoses of capital |
Simple price = Cost price plus profit. Rate of profit |
Particularity (difference between capitals) |
Capitals in competition absolute & relative surplus value |
Organic composition of capital |
Production price = Cost price plus uniform rate of profit |
Singularity (systemic unity of social capital) |
General law of capital accumulation |
Reproduction of total social capital via Departments of Reproduction |
Reproduction price General Rate of Profit |