In the Spirit of HegelThe Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel's grandest experiment, changing our vision of the world and the very nature of philosophical enterprise. In this book, Solomon captures the bold and exhilarating spirit, presenting the Phenomenology as a thoroughly personal as well as philosophical work. He begins with a historical introduction, which lays the groundwork for a section-by-section analysis of the Phenomenology. Both the initiated and readers unacquainted with the intricacies of German idealism will find this to be an accessible and exciting introduction to this great philosopher's monumental work. |
Contents
| 10 | |
| 27 | |
| 41 | |
Hölderlins Grand Metaphor | 57 |
Immanual Kant 17241804 | 70 |
Johann Gottlieb Fichte 17621814 | 85 |
Philosophy | 107 |
The Vocation of a NonScholar | 114 |
A Glossary of Terms Translated into Ordinary | 273 |
Chapter Six Against Method The Introduction to | 291 |
The Question of the Criterion | 307 |
Hegels Revenge on Russell | 321 |
The First Dialectical | 337 |
Kant Newton and the Nature | 363 |
The World as Contradiction | 376 |
g Hegels Philosophy of Nature Reason in chapter 5A | 401 |
The Positivity of Christian Religion | 125 |
Images from Hölderlin | 136 |
18011806 | 147 |
Chapter Four a The Phenomenology of Spirit The Book | 155 |
Hegels Language | 163 |
Reason and Rationality | 180 |
Idealism and a Note on the New Physics | 186 |
Spirit and SelfIdentity | 196 |
The Problem of Necessity | 203 |
The World as Willful | 220 |
Dialectic and the Development of the Concept | 228 |
The Structure of The Phenomenology of Spirit or Lack of It | 235 |
The Preface | 243 |
Desire Dependency | 425 |
A Parable of the Self in Formation | 443 |
Chapter Eight a Another Note on Reason | 471 |
Chapter Nine Hegels Ethics chapter 5 parts B and | 480 |
b Morality and the Good Life | 498 |
The Postulates of Practical Reason | 564 |
Religion as Art | 604 |
Revealed Religion Christianity? | 614 |
Jesus as the beautiful soul | 622 |
Absolute Knowing | 635 |
Index | 641 |
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Absolute abstract argued argument Aristotle beautiful soul becomes begins called chapter Christianity concepts context contradiction Critique culture David Hume Descartes dialectic Differenz-essay discussion distinction Enlightenment essay essential ethics example experience fact Fichte Fichte's form of consciousness freedom French French Revolution G.W.F. Hegel German German Idealism Goethe Greek hedonism Hegel tells Hegel's philosophy Hegelian Hölderlin human Ibid idea ideal idealist identity individual insists interpretation inverted world Jesus Kant Kant's Kantian Kaufmann knowledge later laws Lectures Leibniz Logic means metaphor metaphysics modern moral nature notion objects one's particular Phenome Phenomenology of Spirit political practical reason Preface principles problem question rational reality refer rejects religion religious Revolution romantic Romanticism Rousseau scepticism Schelling Schelling's sciousness self-consciousness sense sense-certainty simply Sittlichkeit society Spirit Stoicism theory thing thinking thought tion trans transcendental truth turn ultimate understanding Unhappy Consciousness unity Univ universal Walter Kaufmann whole words
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Page 429 - THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.
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