
The Phenomenology of Mind (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. System of ScienceBy Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelLength28h 2m
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The Phenomenology of Mind is Hegel's monumental account of consciousness as it passes through successive shapes of experience toward self-knowledge, reason, spirit, religion, and absolute knowing. Written in a dense, dialectical prose that fuses philosophical argument with dramatic movement, the work stands at the summit of German Idealism and responds to Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Enlightenment rationalism, and post-Revolutionary history. Its famous analyses—master and bondsman, unhappy consciousness, ethical life, and revealed religion—make philosophy a narrative of Bildung, the education of consciousness itself. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), formed by classical learning, Protestant theology, and the upheavals of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe, sought to understand freedom as a historical and rational achievement. His early theological and political concerns matured into a systematic philosophy in which thought, society, and history are intelligible as unfolding processes. The Phenomenology, published in 1807, introduced this ambition with unparalleled force. This book is essential for readers seeking the roots of modern continental philosophy, social theory, theology, and theories of recognition. Demanding but profoundly rewarding, it should be read slowly, with attention to its architecture and historical resonances.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length28 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateApr 22, 2020
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Table of contents
1Your Word is Your Wand (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Synopsis
4Historical Context
5Author Biography
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6Preface: On Scientific Knowledge
7Introduction
8A. Consciousness
9I. Certainty at the Level of Sense-Experience — The “This”, And “Meaning”
10II. Perception: Or Things and Their Deceptiveness
11III. Force and the Understanding-The World of Appearance and the Supersensible World
12B. Self-Consciousness
13IV. The Truth which Conscious Certainty of Self Realizes
14A. Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness Lordship and Bondage
15B. Freedom of Self-Consciousness Stoicism: Scepticism: The Unhappy Consciousness
16C. Free Concrete Mind
17V. Reason’s Certainty and Reason’s Truth
18A. Observation as a Process of Reason
19A (1). Observation of Nature
20B. Observation of Self-Consciousness in its Pure Form and in its Relation to External Reality — Logical and Psychological Laws
21C. Observation of the Relation of Self-Consciousness To its Immediate Actuality — Physiognomy and Phrenology.
22B. The Realization of Rational Self-Consciousness Through its Own Activity
23A. Pleasure and Necessity
24B. The Law of the Heart, and the Frenzy Of Self-Conceit
25C. Virtue and the Course of the World
26C. Individuality, which Takes Itself to Be Real In and for Itself
27A. Society as a Herd of Individuals: Deceit: "Actual Fact"
28B. Reason as Lawgiver
29C. Reason as Testing Laws
30VI. Spirit
31A. Objective Spirit — The Ethical Order
32A. The Ethical World: Law Human and Divine: Man and Woman
33B. Ethical Action. Knowledge, Human and Divine. Guilt and Destiny
34C. The Condition of Right or Legal Status
35B. Spirit in Self-Estrangement — The Discipline Of Culture
36I. The World of Spirit in Self-Estrangement
37II. Enlightenment
38III. Absolute Freedom and Terror
39C. Spirit in the Condition of Being Certain of Itself: Morality
40A. The Moral View of the World
41B. Dissemblance
42C. Conscience: The “Beautiful Soul”: Evil and the Forgiveness of it
43VII. Religion
44A. Natural Religion
45A. God as Light
46B. Plants and Animals as Objects of Religion
47C. The Artificer
48B. Religion in the Form of Art
49A. The Abstract Work of Art
50B. The Living Work of Art