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Abstract
The thesis that each paragraph of the three parts of the logic in the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences can be related to the development in the beginning initial chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit (Consciousness, Self-Consciousness and Reason) is problematic insofar as it is not immediately clear how the logic of essence matches the Self-Conscious-Chapter of the Phenomenology. This chapter is characterized by the attempt to reconcile pure Self-Consciousness with the reality of life. The logic of essence, however, develops the realization of the essence. In this development the concept of life has no place. The development rather seems to refer to a concept of being that belongs to lifeless nature.
The article shows that this problem can be solved if the development of the Self-Conscious-Chapter is understood as the self-conscious repetition of the development in the Conscious-Chapter. Although lifeless nature plays its role in the appearing consciousness of the Conscious-Chapter and life plays its role in the appearing consciousness of the Self-Conscious-Chapter, both the logical structure of these chapters, and the development of the logic of being and the logic of essence (including its categories of relation) do not immediately concern the logic of lifeless nature and life.