Dear Georg,
In the Phenomenology of Spirit, you wrote:
"Reason is spirit, when its certainty of being all reality has been raised to the level of truth, and reason is consciously aware of itself as its own world, and of the world as itself. The development of spirit was indicated in the immediately preceding movement of mind, where the object of consciousness, the category pure and simple, rose to be the notion of reason."
and I was just kinda wondering. Well.... ermmm... what?!?!?!?!
Sincerely,
Tom
May 30, 2015
May 30, 2015 at 4:14 PM UTC
Dear Georg,
In the Phenomenology of Spirit, you wrote:
"Reason is spirit, when its certainty of being all reality has been raised to the level of truth, and reason is consciously aware of itself as its own world, and of the world as itself. The development of spirit was indicated in the immediately preceding movement of mind, where the object of consciousness, the category pure and simple, rose to be the notion of reason."
and I was just kinda wondering. Well.... ermmm... what?!?!?!?!
Sincerely,
Tom
Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel was the central figure in the philosophical period known as "German Idealism." His philosophy was called "Absolute Idealism" and was largely a response to the philosophy of Kant. He introduced his own unique version of a system of reasoning, known as Dialectics, which attempts to examine phenomena from the standpoint of their metaphysical contradictions. He is notoriously difficult to understand, writing in a dense and jargon laden prose. He nevertheless had a profound influence on many prominent thinkers of the 19-21st centuries, the likes of whom include: Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Slavoj Zizek, etc.
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