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Hegel on Market Laws and External Teleology

“…On my reading, Hegel develops a structural metaphysics of freedom in his Science of Logic (see Baumann 2012). In making this claim, I follow Horstmann (1984, 2006), Iber (1990, 2000) and others in reading Hegel's Logic as a pre-Kantian and structural metaphysics. As Iber puts it, ‘reality, be it spiritual or natural reality, is essentially structured by relations of form (Formverhältnisse), which are in turn graspable according to the formalities of our thought structures’ (2000: 15).…”

“…In making this claim, I follow Horstmann (1984, 2006), Iber (1990, 2000) and others in reading Hegel's Logic as a pre-Kantian and structural metaphysics. As Iber puts it, ‘reality, be it spiritual or natural reality, is essentially structured by relations of form (Formverhältnisse), which are in turn graspable according to the formalities of our thought structures’ (2000: 15). For Hegel, everything in the world is characterized by its structure and a structure consists in the specific interrelation of the internal elements of something as well as its relation to its surroundings.…”