Systematically examines Hegel's idealism in relation to the metaphysical and epistemological tradition stemming from Aristotle.

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The History of Philosophy and its Place within the System: 1. The idea of a history of philosophy; 2. The arrangement of the Lectures on Aristotle: architectonic and systematic presuppositions of Hegel's interpretation; Part II. Logic and Metaphysics: 3. The Lectures on the Metaphysics; 4. The Aristotelian heritage in the Science of Logic; 5. Aristotelian questions; 6. Essence and concept; Part III. Aristotle and the Realphilosophie: 7. Aristotelian and Newtonian models in Hegel's philosophy of nature; 8. Aristotle's De anima and Hegel's philosophy of subjective spirit; 9. The political realization of ethics; Part IV. Conclusions: 10. Truth, holism and judgement; 11. The pictures of Aristotle in Hegel's formative years; Bibliography; Index.