Gregory S. Moss has been Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2016. Dr. Moss was a lecturer in philosophy at Clemson University from 2014-2016. Dr. Moss took his PhD in philosophy in August 2014 at the University of Georgia before which he was a Fulbright Fellow (2013-2014) at the University of Bonn.

Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence. This book demonstrates that by reading Hegel's Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic as a form of Absolute Dialetheism, Hegel's logic of the concept can account for the possibility of absolute existence.

Foreword Richard Dien Winfield

Introduction

Part I: The Problem of Absolute Being

1. The Problem of Nihilism in Early German Idealism

2. The Problem of Emanation in Neo-Platonism

3. Dual Principles of Truth and the Problem of Instantiation

4. The Logic of the Finite Concept

5. The Problem of the Missing Difference and Absolute Empiricism

6. The Problem of Onto-Theology

7. From the the Third Man Regress to Absolute Dialetheism

Part II: Hegel's Absolute Dialetheism

8. Hegel's Logic of the Concept: The Concept of Self-Particularization

9. Relative Dialetheism: The No-World View

10. Hegel's Solution to the Problem of Absolute Knowledge

11. Hegel's Ontological Argument: The Existence of the Absolute

12. Forms of Ideality in Hegel's Logic: Being, Essence, and Concept

13. The Logic of Singularity

14. Relativizing the Absolute: Empiricism, Judgment, and Inference

15. The Singular Absolute