Hegel conceived his "Science of Logic" as a "theory of pure thinking" as well as a successor discipline to traditional metaphysics. Christian Georg Martin offers an argumentative reconstruction of the whole work, reading it as a "critical ontology", namely as the attempt to abstract from all presuppositions and to immanently unfold conceptual determinations characterizing what necessarily belongs to there being anything at all.

Hegel conceived his Science of Logic as a "theory of pure thinking" as well as a successor discipline to traditional metaphysics. Christian Georg Martin offers an argumentative reconstruction of the whole work, reading it as a "critical ontology", namely as the attempt to abstract from all presuppositions and to immanently unfold conceptual determinations characterizing what necessarily belongs to there being anything at all. The reconstruction culminates in the conception of a physically, chemically and biologically characterizable continuum, being necessarily transformed by embodied subjects into a common, significant world, in which freedom has concrete reality.