Single Idea 21773

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception]

Full Idea

Experience moves from 1) immediacy, to 2) united objects with properties, 3) its forces and laws, 4) self-consciousness in the process, 5) seeing a rational realm, 6) seeing a cultural realm, 7) seeing the absolute being of consciousness.

Gist of Idea

Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 03 'From certainty'

Book Reference

Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.61


A Reaction

[My summary of Houlgate's summary of the key sequence of ideas in The Phenomenology of Spirit]. I stare at it with bewilderment, but cannot decide whether or not Hegel is pursuing a worthwhile project. [also Houlgate p.77 and 102]