The Phenomenology of Spirit (The Phenomenology of Mind)

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • A: CONSCIOUSNESS
  • B: SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
  • C: FREE CONCRETE MIND
  • (BB) VI. SPIRIT
  • (CC) VII. RELIGION
  • (DD) VIII. ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE

    • THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT

    (THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND)

    BY GEORG W. F. HEGEL

    TRANSLATED BY J. B. BAILLIE

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    PREFACE

    On Scientific Knowledge in General

    The element in which truth is found is the notion; its true embodiment is a scientifically constructed system. The position and point of view of spiritual culture at the present time. A principle of Knowledge is not the completion of Knowledge: objections to formalism.

    The Absolute is Subject: the meaning of this statement. The sphere and element of systematic Knowledge: the course by which consciousness rises to this stage constitutes the Phenomenology of Mind.

    The transformation of figurative presentations and familiar ideas into thoughts; and these again into notions. To what extent is the Phenomenology of Mind negative, or how far does it contain falsity? Historical and Mathematical truth. Nature of Philosophical truth, and its Method: objections to schematizing formalism.

    Requisite for the study of philosophy. The negative procedure of ratiocination: its positive procedure: its subject. Philosophizing by the light of nature: healthy common-sense: the inspiration of genius.

    Conclusion: the relation of the author to his public.

    INTRODUCTION

    [Intention and Method of the Argument of the Phenomenology]

    A. CONSCIOUSNESS

    I. Sense-Certainty, This, & Meaning

    1. The object of sense-certainty

    2. The subject of sense-certainty

    3. The apprehension and expression of sense-immediacy

    II. Perception, Thing, & Deceptiveness

    1. The notion of a thing

    2. The contradictoriness of the perception of things

    3. The transition to unconditioned universality and the sphere of Understanding

    III. Force & Understanding; Appearance and the Supersensible World

    1. Force and the play of forces

    2. The inner realm

    (a) The supersensible world

    (1) The inner; appearance; understanding

    (2) The supersensible as an appearance

    (3) Law as the true nature of appearance

    (b) Law as distinction and sameness

    (1) Specific laws and general law

    (2) Law and force

    (3) Explanation

    (c) The law of pure distinction: the inverted world

    3. Infinitude

    B. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

    IV. True Nature of Self-Certainty

    1.