The Metaphysics from Hegel’s Jena System-Project is divided into a treatment of Cognition as System of First Principles, followed by a Metaphysics of Objectivity and a Metaphysics of Subjectivity. In this chapter I discuss the first two of these three, and so begin with cognition. Unlike subject, universal or substance, cognition is logically its own other. As such, cognition introduces a new sense of connection, neither primitive connection nor relation nor proportion, since none of these as relation relate to themselves as wholly other. It therefore constitutes a new moment in the project of philosophical internalization: it is the internalization of negation itself. The fundamental distinction between the Logic and the Metaphysics is clear: in the Logic, we have followed the logical internalization of subject, universal and substance through the force of negation. Now in the Metaphysics we follow the internalization of negation, and this identifies the metaphysical status of negation itself. In the Metaphysics of Objectivity, ground takes over the role played by cognition previously: it is cognition’s second power.