Primitive and mediate reasons : immanent concepts from mechanism to teleology -- The dialectic of mechanism -- Against empiricist metaphysics and for the concept thesis and the metaphysics of reason -- Kant's challenge and Hegel's defense of natural teleology : the concept as the substance of life -- The inescapable problem of complete reasons -- Kant's dialectic critique of metaphysics -- Kant's dialectic argument and the restriction of knowledge -- The opening for Hegel's response to Kant's dialectic -- Complete reasons : from the idea to the absolute idea -- Against the metaphysics of the understanding and the final subject or substratum -- Insubstantial holism and the real contradiction of the lawful : chemism -- The idea -- Free kind for itself : from the metaphysics of the absolute idea to epistemological monism and idealism -- Conclusion of the logic : dialectic, contradiction, and absolute knowledge