Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept

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Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept is Benedetto Croce’s major philosophical treatise in which he reconceives logic as a theory of pure concepts grounded in his idealist aesthetics and philosophy of spirit.

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instanceOf book
philosophical treatise
work of philosophy
aimsAt grounding logic in philosophy of spirit
overcoming separation of logic, aesthetics, and ethics
author Benedetto Croce
basedOn aesthetic theory of Benedetto Croce
philosophy of spirit of Benedetto Croce
centralConcept conceptual knowledge
dialectic
distinctness of concept and intuition
idealism
philosophy of spirit
pure concept
unity of theory and practice
countryOfOrigin Italy
definesLogicAs science of the pure concept
distinguishes concept from intuition
pure concept from empirical representation
field aesthetics
epistemology
logic
metaphysics
philosophy of mind
genre systematic philosophy
historicalContext early 20th‑century European philosophy
influenced 20th‑century Italian philosophy
Crocean aesthetics scholarship
influencedBy G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German idealism
Giambattista Vico
Immanuel Kant
Italian neo‑idealism
mainLanguage Italian
opposesView logic as merely formal calculus
psychologism in logic
partOf system of philosophy of Benedetto Croce
philosophicalGoal to show logic as moment of the spirit’s activity
philosophicalTradition Italian idealism
absolute idealism
predecessorWork Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
reconceptualizes logic as theory of pure concept
relatesTo theory of categories
theory of definition
theory of judgment
theory of knowledge
subjectOf scholarly commentary on Benedetto Croce
studies in Italian idealism
writtenBy Benedetto Croce as part of his systematic philosophy

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Benedetto Croce notableWork Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept
Italian idealism associatedWork Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic relatedWork Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept
Philosophy of the Practical precedes Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept
Theory and History of Historiography relatedWork Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept