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The Phenomenology of Mind by Hegel

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THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND

Table of Contents

THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND ...........................................................................................................1

G. W. F. HEGEL......................................................................................................................................1

PREFACE: ON SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE......................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................28

A. CONSCIOUSNESS(1).................................................................................................................................33

I. CERTAINTY AT THE LEVEL OF SENSE−EXPERIENCE−THE "THIS", AND

"MEANING" ........................................................................................................................................34

II. PERCEPTION: OR THINGS AND THEIR DECEPTIVENESS(1).............................................39

III. FORCE AND THE UNDERSTANDING−THE WORLD OF APPEARANCE AND THE

SUPERSENSIBLE WORLD(1) ...........................................................................................................46

B. SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS(1)......................................................................................................................60

IV. THE TRUTH WHICH CONSCIOUS CERTAINTY OF SELF REALIZES ..............................60

THE TRUTH WHICH CONSCIOUS CERTAINTY OF SELF REALIZES ....................................60

A. INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS..................................64

LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE............................................................................................................64

B. FREEDOM OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS: STOICISM: SCEPTICISM: THE UNHAPPY

CONSCIOUSNESS ..............................................................................................................................69

C. [FREE CONCRETE MIND](1) ...................................................................................................................80

AA. REASON(2) ..................................................................................................................................80

REASON'S CERTAINTY AND REASON'S TRUTH ......................................................................81

A. OBSERVATION AS A PROCESS OF REASON ........................................................................85

a(1). OBSERVATION OF NATURE..................................................................................................86

a (2). OBSERVATION OF ORGANIC NATURE ............................................................................90

b. OBSERVATION OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS PURE FORM AND IN ITS

RELATION TO EXTERNAL REALITY−LOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS.............104

b. OBSERVATION OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS PURE FORM AND IN ITS

RELATION TO EXTERNAL REALITY−LOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS.............104

c. OBSERVATION OF THE RELATION OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS

IMMEDIATE ACTUALITY − PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY. ....................................108

OBSERVATION OF THE RELATION OF SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS

IMMEDIATE ACTUALITY − PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY.(1) ...............................108

THE REALIZATION OF RATIONAL SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH ITS OWN

ACTIVITY..........................................................................................................................................123

THE REALIZATION OF RATIONAL SELF−CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH ITS OWN

ACTIVITY..........................................................................................................................................123

a. PLEASURE AND NECESSITY ...................................................................................................127

b. THE LAW OF THE HEART, AND THE FRENZY OF SELF−CONCEIT................................130

c. VIRTUE AND THE COURSE OF THE WORLD ......................................................................134

C. INDIVIDUALITY, WHICH TAKES ITSELF TO BE REAL IN AND FOR ITSELF ..............138

a. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: SELF−CONTAINED INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED AS A

COMMUNITY OF ANIMALS, AND THE DECEPTION THENCE ARISING: THE REAL

FACT ..................................................................................................................................................140

SELF−CONSCIOUS INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED AS A COMMUNITY OF ANIMALS

AND THE DECEPTION THENCE ARISING: THE REAL FACT ................................................141

b. REASON AS LAWGIVER ...........................................................................................................149

c. REASON AS TESTING LAWS....................................................................................................151

VI. SPIRIT(1) ....................................................................................................................................155

A. OBJECTIVE SPIRIT(1) − THE ETHICAL ORDER(2) .............................................................157