A. J. Horn

Abstract

The essay seeks to outline Hegel’s nomological account as it is expressed in the relation between force and law. Central to this view is that, in order for the law to express itself, there has to be a doubling of both the force and form; that double form or polarity is manifested as a posited and resolved contradictory relation. This provides the foundations and groundwork for Marx to analyse the twofold character of the nature of the labour power inherent in the commodity, which finds its contradictory value expression in the relative and equivalent forms of value; the dialectical poles of the manifestation of the law of value is resolved in the objective relation between any commodity and the money form.

Keywords

Contradiction, Polarity, Inner-difference, Appearance, Abstract Understanding, First Supersensible World, Second Supersensible World, Inversion, Force and Law, Principle of Change and Alteration, Homogenous Human Labour-power, Twofold Content and Form, Value as Subject, Nomological Motions

From: Critiquer 2017 45 (1-2)

Editor: Wang Yi