The Phenomenology of Spirit: Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Cover......Page 1
Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
In Search of the Absolute......Page 8
Hegel’s Response......Page 11
The Absolute Unmasked?......Page 13
Who Am I?......Page 15
'Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things’......Page 18
Note on the Translation and Commentary......Page 22
Bibliography and Abbreviations......Page 24
System of Science......Page 28
Contents......Page 30
Preface......Page 32
Introduction......Page 62
I. Sensory Certainty: The This and Meaning......Page 70
II. Perception: The Thing and Illusion......Page 75
III. Force and Understanding: Appearance and Supersensible World......Page 83
IV. The Truth of Certainty of Oneself......Page 99
A. Independence and dependence of self-consciousness: lordship and bondage......Page 103
B. Freedom of self-consciousness: stoicism, scepticism, and the unhappy consciousness......Page 109
V. Certainty and Truth of Reason......Page 122
A. Observing reason......Page 126
A. OBSERVATION OF NATURE......Page 127
B. OBSERVATION OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS RELATION TO EXTERNAL ACTUALITY. LOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS......Page 148
C. OBSERVATION OF THE RELATION OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS IMMEDIATE ACTUALITY. PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY......Page 151
B. The actualization of rational self-consciousness through itself......Page 167
A. PLEASURE AND NECESSITY......Page 171
B. THE LAW OF THE HEART AND THE FRENZY OF SELF-CONCEIT......Page 174
C. VIRTUE AND THE COURSE OF THE WORLD......Page 179
C. Individuality which takes itself to be real in and for itself......Page 183
A. THE SPIRITUAL ANIMAL KINGDOM AND DECEIT, OR THE THING ITSELF......Page 184
B. REASON AS LAWGIVER......Page 194
C. REASON AS LAW-TESTING......Page 197
VI. Spirit......Page 201
A. THE ETHICAL WORLD. HUMAN AND DIVINE LAW: MAN AND WOMAN......Page 203
B. THE ETHICAL ACTION. HUMAN AND DIVINE KNOWLEDGE GUILT AND DESTINY......Page 211
C. THE STATE OF RIGHT......Page 218
B. Self-alienated spirit. Culture......Page 220
A. Culture and its realm of actuality......Page 222
B. Faith and pure insight......Page 238
II. THE ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 242
A. The struggle of the enlightenment with superstition......Page 243
B. The truth of enlightenment......Page 256
III. ABSOLUTE FREEDOM AND TERROR......Page 260
C. Spirit certain of itself. Morality......Page 265
A. THE MORAL WORLD-VIEW......Page 266
B. SHIFTING......Page 272
C. CONSCIENCE. THE BEAUTIFUL SOUL, EVIL AND ITS FORGIVENESS......Page 278
VII. Religion......Page 295
A. Natural religion......Page 299
A. THE LIGHT-ESSENCE......Page 300
B. THE PLANT AND THE ANIMAL......Page 301
C. THE ARTISAN......Page 302
B. Religion of art......Page 304
A. THE ABSTRACT WORK OF ART......Page 306
B. THE LIVING WORK OF ART......Page 311
C. THE SPIRITUAL WORK OF ART......Page 314
C. The revealed religion......Page 322
VIII. Absolute Knowledge......Page 339
Glossary of Some Key Terms......Page 350
Preface......Page 358
Introduction......Page 397
I. Sensory Certainty: The This and Meaning......Page 407
II. Perception: The Thing and Illusion......Page 410
III. Force and Understanding: Appearance and Supersensible World......Page 412
IV. The Truth of Certainty of Oneself......Page 418
A. INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS: LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE......Page 422
B. FREEDOM OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS: STOICISM, SCEPTICISM, AND THE UNHAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 430
V. Certainty and Truth of Reason......Page 438
A. OBSERVING REASON......Page 440
b. Observation of nature......Page 441
b. Observation of self-consciousness in its purity and in its relation to external actuality. Logical and psychological laws......Page 448
c. Observation of the relation of self-consciousness to its immediate actuality. Physiognomy and phrenology......Page 449
B. THE ACTUALIZATION OF RATIONAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH ITSELF......Page 456
a. Pleasure and necessity......Page 458
b. The law of the heart and the frenzy of self-conceit......Page 459
c. Virtue and the course of the world......Page 460
a. The spiritual animal kingdom and deceit, or the Thing itself......Page 462
b. Reason as lawgiver......Page 466
c. Reason as law-testing......Page 467
VI. Spirit......Page 469
a. The ethical world. Human and divine law: man and woman......Page 470
b. The ethical action. Human and divine knowledge. Guilt and destiny.......Page 472
B. SELF-ALIENATED SPIRIT. CULTURE......Page 475
a. Culture and its realm of actuality......Page 476
b. Faith and pure insight......Page 482
a. The struggle of the enlightenment with superstition......Page 483
b. The truth of enlightenment......Page 487
III. Absolute freedom and terror......Page 489
a. The moral world-view......Page 491
b. Shifting......Page 493
c. Conscience. The beautiful soul, evil and its forgiveness......Page 496
VII. Religion......Page 502
a. The light-essence......Page 504
c. The artisan......Page 505
B. RELIGION OF ART......Page 506
a. The abstract work of art......Page 507
b. The living work of art......Page 509
c. The spiritual work of art......Page 510
C. THE REVEALED RELIGION......Page 513
VIII. Absolute Knowledge......Page 521
Index......Page 530