Saturday, November 17, 2018

Some Equivalence Relations in Hegel's Phenomenology that may Provide a Key to its Understanding

Spirit = Reality (spirit is reality, and reality is spirit)

Reason = (all) Reality [reason is (all) reality, and (all) reality is reason]

Reason = the conscious certainty of being all reality1 (or the certainty of consciousness that it is all reality2)

Reason = Spirit that knows itself in its truth, as the conscious certainty of being all reality3

Reason = Self-consciousness4 (which exists both in itself and for itself, because the self as an object of self-consciousness is both an object in itself and for itself)

Independent self-consciousness = self-consciousness that is purely for itself and not for another (not determined by another)

Dependent self-consciousness = self-consciousness that is determined by another

The relation between independent and dependent self-consciousness = in a metaphorical sense, the relation between lordship and bondage or between master and slave

The “unhappy consciousness” = divided self-consciousness = the consciousness that is conscious of itself as divided and unable to reconcile itself with another

Consciousness (including self-consciousness) = the simple substance of Spirit

Self-consciousness as reason = all reality

Idealism = the Notion that reason is the conscious certainty of being all reality

Consciousness, insofar as it has Reason = Spirit5 = Reality6

The moments (or stages) of consciousness = sense-certainty, perception, and understanding

Pure being = the essence of sense-certainty7

The entire system of consciousness = the entire realm of the truth of Spirit8

Spirit in its truth = the living ethical world9 = the individual form of Spirit that proceeds from and returns to the self of Spirit10 

Spirit = Reason = concrete ethical actuality

Religion = the consciousness of absolute being11 = the fulfillment of the life of Spirit

The Three Forms of Religion = Natural Religion, Religion in the Form of Art, and Revealed Religion

Natural Religion = Religion in which Spirit knows itself as its object in a “natural” or immediate shape12

Religion in the form of art = Religion in which the shape that Spirit takes is a form of self through the creative activity of consciousness13

Revealed Religion = Religion in which Spirit is presented in and for itself as a unity of its actual shape and true form of self14

Absolute being = the self-consciousness of Spirit15

Spirit as absolute being, which knows itself as all reality = all truth

Essence = that which has being in itself16 = the spiritual alone = the actual

The true alone = the actual

Spirit = self-supporting, absolute, real being17  

Absolute Being = Spirit that is in-and-for-itself, insofar as it is simple eternal substance18

Science = the Spirit that knows itself as Spirit19

The way to science = the science of the experience of consciousness20

The description of the coming-to-be of Science as such = the phenomenology of Spirit21

(See also my review of the Phenomenology here.)


FOOTNOTES

1Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 142.
2Ibid., p. 140.
3Ibid., p. 263.
4Ibid., p. 139.
5Ibid., p. 265.
6Ibid., p. 217.
7Ibid., p. 59.
8Ibid., p. 56.
9Ibid., p. 265.
10Ibid., p. 265.
11Ibid., p. 410.
12Ibid., p. 416
13Ibid., p. 416.
14Ibid., p. 416.
15Ibid., p. 410.
16Ibid., p. 14.
17Ibid., p. 264.
18Ibid., p. 325.
19Ibid., p. 12.
20Ibid., p. 56.
21Ibid., p. 15.













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