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This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Hegel's works.
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90. The knowledge or knowing which is at the start or is immediately our object cannot be anything else but immediate knowledge itself, a knowledge of the immediate or of what simply is. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This text provides a great, relatively accessible translation with a helpful paragraph-by-paragraph analysis to guide readers through it. The reason I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 is that the analysis section doesn't quite go far enough. I feel a glossary would have been welcome to explain the unique and somewhat slippery ways Hegel uses terms, such as 'Notion' for example. This is one of the most daunting texts in philosophy and I feel the publisher could have included more material to orientate the reader with some extremely alien concepts.
Dense as anything, if you give it the time and effort it's extremely rewarding. Don't jump into it straight away though - I recommend Stern's excellent guidebook and free articles on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as great ways of getting to grips with the text.
Dense as anything, if you give it the time and effort it's extremely rewarding. Don't jump into it straight away though - I recommend Stern's excellent guidebook and free articles on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as great ways of getting to grips with the text.
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This is a modern English translation of Hegel's classic text the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). An older translation by JB Baillie appeared just before the first world war under the title The Phenomenology of Mind, the German 'Geist' covering both English terms. Millar's translation is more literal and accurate and Baillie's more colloquial. Where Baillie has helpful contextualising references to world literature, Millar has a forward and paraphrase by JN Findlay. Both are usable. There's also a draft online edition with facing German by Stephen Houlgate. Unfortunately Hegel's language is so idiosyncratic that translation becomes an issue.
The Phenomenology is an introduction to a System of Science comprising a Logic of metaphysical ideas; followed by philosophies of Nature and Mind/Spirit. It thus expounds the progress from everyday consciousness to the standpoint of philosophical 'science'. This is done in eight chapters, starting from 'consciousness' (1-3) through self-consciousness to reason, spirit, religion and a brief chapter on 'absolute knowledge'. Hegel often begins with a section bristling with impenetrable abstractions and it is only when the 'dialectic' (argument) starts that the chapter becomes easier to follow. The concluding transitions, being at times arbitrary, are again often obscure. The abstract parts jostle with wonderful lyrical metaphors. The later chapters add more concrete ideas and content illuminated by glancing references to historical events and texts that locate the ideas being developed. The System was eventually published as the Encyclopaedia (1817) with a new introduction in the early chapters of the Encyclopaedia Logic.
The book is a heart and soul engagement with life and culture. I have read it several times and I would say in criticism only that there is a tendency to read the nature of God back from created minds that depends on the idea, derived partly I think from Jacob Boehme's mysticism and Spinoza, that God had to create the world. If the world is an act of divine love (rather than necessity), this is harder to maintain and even the best of life only hints at the goodness and mercy of God. That said, there is a lot of secular truth here and a deep sense of the wholeness and significance of experience besides. Alexandre Kojève's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel is a classic commentary though there are many more and there are free discussions on the hegel-yahoo email lists.
The Phenomenology is an introduction to a System of Science comprising a Logic of metaphysical ideas; followed by philosophies of Nature and Mind/Spirit. It thus expounds the progress from everyday consciousness to the standpoint of philosophical 'science'. This is done in eight chapters, starting from 'consciousness' (1-3) through self-consciousness to reason, spirit, religion and a brief chapter on 'absolute knowledge'. Hegel often begins with a section bristling with impenetrable abstractions and it is only when the 'dialectic' (argument) starts that the chapter becomes easier to follow. The concluding transitions, being at times arbitrary, are again often obscure. The abstract parts jostle with wonderful lyrical metaphors. The later chapters add more concrete ideas and content illuminated by glancing references to historical events and texts that locate the ideas being developed. The System was eventually published as the Encyclopaedia (1817) with a new introduction in the early chapters of the Encyclopaedia Logic.
The book is a heart and soul engagement with life and culture. I have read it several times and I would say in criticism only that there is a tendency to read the nature of God back from created minds that depends on the idea, derived partly I think from Jacob Boehme's mysticism and Spinoza, that God had to create the world. If the world is an act of divine love (rather than necessity), this is harder to maintain and even the best of life only hints at the goodness and mercy of God. That said, there is a lot of secular truth here and a deep sense of the wholeness and significance of experience besides. Alexandre Kojève's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel is a classic commentary though there are many more and there are free discussions on the hegel-yahoo email lists.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Hegel was the first writer to present a Science of Human Experience. His term for this is Phenomenology. His basic theory is that Human Experience evolves or develops from rudimentary states to higher states of consciousness.
In an ascending Ladder, Hegel presents the following evolution of Consciousness (this is a very sketchy outline):
1. Sense-Certainty 2. Perceptual Consciousness 3. The Pure Understanding 4. Self-Consciousness - Desire - The Master/Slave Struggle - Stoic Consciousness - Skeptic Consciousness - Cynic Consciousness - Unhappy (Monk) Consciousness - Idealist Consciousness 5. Rational Consciousness (Reason) - Scientific Consciousness - Ethical Consciousness - Legal Consciousness 6. Spiritual Consciousness - Tragic Consciousness - Alienated Consciousness - Lacerated (Bohemian) Consciousness - Duty Consciousness - Freedom Consciousness - Forgiveness Consciousness 7. Religious Consciousness - Religion of Nature - Religion of Art - Religion of Revelation 8. Philosophy Consciousness - Dialectic Consciousness - Spirit Consciousness - Absolute Consciousness.
Hegel richly deserved all the attention he got in the past 190 years from our best thinkers.
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