Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018
Abstract
The paper deals with the phenomenon of changing quantity into quality as it is developed in Hegel's Science of Logic and its chapter on measure. First, the relation of measure to the concept of number is analyzed, particularly with respect to the concept of real numbers and their birth from the practices of counting and measuring.
After that, the measure is treated as a category of speech devoted to the application of theoretical or quantitative differences within the qualitatively given experience. As such, Hegel's talk about the transformation of quantity into quality, as well as his talk about double negation and bad infnity, are contrasted with their interpretation in Marx's and Engels's political economy.