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Reading Hegel
When I was first taught Hegel, it was as an undergraduate at California State University, Stanislaus, by Professor Jason Winfree. We were assigned no secondary texts, just the Phenomenology of Spirit, A.V. Miller translation. I read parts of the book in PHIL 3000 – Philosophical Reading and Analysis, and PHIL 4500 – Philosophy of Art,…
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Phenomenology of Spirit, §83-86
By Tomas Portillo Our pursuit of knowledge in itself is bound by knowledge being an object for us. We have no access to real truth, just as we perceive it. However, we continually strive for a sort of objective knowledge. We question whether or not the standard by which knowledge is held to is an…
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Phenomenology of Spirit, §78-79
Sections 78-79 form a bridge between what is merely apparent knowing in the form of skepticism, the movement of natural consciousness driven toward knowledge, and the transition to determinate negation. In §78, Hegel calls the path of natural consciousness the “path of doubt, or, more properly, [the] path of despair,” pointing to the fate of…
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Phenomenology of Spirit, §73-78
In Logic of Desire, Peter Kalkavage suggests a series of guiding questions for reading the introduction of the Phenomenology: These questions can be helpfully returned to when the thickets of Hegel begin to thicken, putting the forest back in view before we wade back into the work of navigating the trees. The introduction opens with…