The contrast between the approach to philosophical knowledge in Hegel's Logic1 and the philosophical style of the later lecture series2 is striking. The systemization of Hegel's ideas into a treatise on logic results in an austere philosophical monologue which only serious readers of Hegel would claim to follow in detail. The material published from the Berlin lectures, on the other hand, is almost conversational in style, full of examples, annotations, and digressions. More important than mere stylistic differences, however, is the problem raised by two separate ways of approaching philosophical thought in Hegel. Hegel's system claims to be whole cloth which, because it embraces the essentials of human life and thought, is selfjustifying and self-perpetuating. The problem of how to get into the Hegelian vision, therefore, is acute. The path of knowledge supported by the Logic is a total immersion approach to a foreign philosophical language. Few have the desire or the discipline to follow this path. The path to knowledge in the Berlin lectures, however, while making more concessions to the distractions of the