Phenomenology of SpiritHegel's Phenomenology was written, so the story goes, on the eve of Napoleon's destruction of the Holy Roman Empire and at the beginning of the German 'Wars of Liberation.' The book itself is no less dramatic and revolutionary. It is Hegel's grandest experiment, changing our vision of the world and the very nature of the philosophical enterprise. Hegel puts into harmony ethics and autonomy, ancient philosophy and tragedy, Byronic Romanticism, German poetry, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the concept of virtue, the history of religion (including an ambiguous defense and critique of modern Christianity), the beginnings of a new philosophy of science and Kant's moral philosophy. All are tied together with the dazzling if sometimes bewildering leaps in logic that have come to be known as 'Hegel's dialectic.' |
Contents
ON SCIENTIFIC COGNITION | 1 |
The element of the True is the Notion and its true shape is scientific | 44 |
A CONSCIOUSNESS | 52 |
Copyright | |
20 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute absolute substance abstract action activity actual existence actual world alien ality antithesis appears aspect beautiful soul becomes being-for-self being-in-itself certainty character conscience constitutes contingent contradiction contrary deed determinateness difference distinction divine element empty enjoyment Enlightenment equally essence ethical substance expression external fact faith free object grasped Hegel immediacy immediate in-itself independent indifferent indivi inner intrinsic judgement knowledge latter lute matter in hand means mediation ment merely middle term moments moral consciousness movement necessity negation negative ness object observation opposed opposite organic Phenomenology of Spirit physiognomy picture-thinking positive possesses present principle properties pure consciousness pure duty pure insight pure Notion pure thought reality realization Reason regards relation religion sciousness self-con self-consciousness self-differentiating self-identical sense-certainty sensuous separate shape side simple specific Spirit Stoicism superseded teleology thereby thing thinking tion true truth unessential Unhappy Consciousness unity universal valid vanishing versal whole