#Phenomenology of Spirit

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[noosphe-re]

Furthermore, the very attempt to define how a philosophical work is supposed to be connected with other efforts to deal with the same subject-matter drags in an extraneous concern, and what is really important for the cognition of the truth is obscured. The more conventional opinion gets fixated on the antithesis of truth and falsity, the more it tends to expect a given philosophical system to be either accepted or contradicted; and hence it finds only acceptance or rejection. It does not comprehend the diversity of philosophical systems as the progressive unfolding of truth, but rather sees in it simple disagreements. The bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead. These forms are not just distinguished from one another, they also supplant one another as mutually incompatible. Yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity in which they not only do not conflict, but in which each is as necessary as the other; and this mutual necessity alone constitutes the life of the whole. But he who rejects a philosophical system [i.e. the new philosopher] does not usually comprehend what he is doing in this way; and he who grasps the contradiction between them [i.e, the historian of philosophy] does not, as a general rule, know how to free it from its one-sidedness, or maintain it in its freedom by recognizing the reciprocally necessary moments that take shape as a conflict and seeming incompatibility.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes), translated by A. V. Miller

[arsanimarum]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of spirit

[empirearchives]

Well that’s certainly one way to describe Hegel’s view of Napoleon 🤭

[unmechanism]

if anyone out there can explain to me what the hell Hegel is saying in chapter 6 of the Phenomenology of Spirit, I'll open a church in your name, please I am BEGGING for enlightenment

[the-chomsky-hash]

[cosmonautroger]

Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology Of Spirit

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[the-framed-maelstrom]

This feeling of uneasiness is surely bound to be transformed into the conviction that the whole project of securing for consciousness through cognition what exists in itself is absurd, and that there is a boundary between cognition and the Absolute which completely separates them.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

[sartre-mi-pana]

“The whole spirit, the spirit of religion, is again the movement to achieve, from its immediacy, the knowledge of what it is in-itself or immediately, and to achieve that the figure in which the spirit appears to consciousness is completely equal to its essence and that he intuits himself as he is”

Today in class we were talking about the figures of religion in the Phenomenology of Spirit and about the multiple interpretations of Hegel’s conclusions on religion, from Kojève’s analysis of Hegel as the first atheistic philosophy to the right hegelians’ reading of the figures as Christian. The professor said that “Hegel is like an eel” in the sense that it cannot be easily grasped specially in terms of his idea on religion. And this concept has been living rent-free in my head since then. I present you Hegeel, the great German philosopher from the 19th century.

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Death, if that is what we wish to call that non-actuality, is the most fearful thing of all, and to keep and hold fast to what is dead requires only the greatest force. Powerless beauty detests the understanding because the understanding expects of her what she cannot do. However, the life of spirit is not a life that is fearing death and austerely saving itself from ruin; rather, it bears death calmly, and in death, it sustains itself. Spirit only wins its truth by finding its feet in its absolute disruption. Spirit is not this power which, as the positive, avoids looking at the negative, as is the case when we say of something that it is nothing, or that it is false, and then, being done with it, go off on our own way on to something else. No, spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face and lingering with it [tarrying with the negative]. This lingering is the magical power that converts it into being. – This power is the same as what in the preceding was called the subject, which, by giving existence to determinateness in its own element, sublates abstract immediacy, or, is only existing immediacy, and, as a result, is itself the true substance, is being, or, is the immediacy which does not have mediation external to itself but is itself this mediation.

G. W. F. Hegel - Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit - pg. 20 - 21. (Emphasis mine)

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[ranikrajan]

Does this apply to lovers, friends, adversaries and challenges?

"The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change."

-Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. (1977). "Preface". In Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. (Miller, A.V.). Oxford University Press.

[arsanimarum]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

[theadaptableeducator]

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On The Hegel Shit