A divisão da ciência da natureza na Enciclopédia Filosófica para Classe Superior by Marcos Fábio Alexandre Nicolau –

This article aims at comprehending Hegel´s systematic purpose during his time in Nuremberg, when he was headmaster and school teacher (1806–1816). From this time, whe have the Philosophical Propaedeutics, whose original notes were used by the philosopher during his teaching years in the period of 1808 to 1811 - texts which do not constitute an organic writing, but a group of casual texts in which Hegel devoted himself to the hard work of teaching philosophy to young people, finally giving us a true synthesis of his system in a simple and pedagogical way. In this collection of notes, we find the Philosophical Encyclopaedia of the Superior Class, yielding a “Natural Science“ as the second moment of the system, which contains Mathematics instead of Mechanics

as its first section, differently from the Berlin Encyclopaedia . In this division, which also will be that of the Heidelberg version, Mechanics is a part of the second section, the Inorganic Physics. This raises the question: Why does Hegel abandon this division? Along with interpreters like Hösle, we will try to understand this question, determining the place of mathematics in Hegel’s system.