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Full Idea
In 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' Hegel offers a panoptic account of Western consciousness as a dialectical process shaped by opposing principles - such as subject/object, freedom/determinism, temporal/eternal, and particular/universal.
Gist of Idea
Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Kevin Aho - Existentialism: an introduction 2 'Subjective'
Book Ref
Aho,Kevin: 'Existentialism: an introduction' [Polity 2014], p.23
A Reaction
A helpful pointer, for us poor analytic philosophers, who stare in bewilderment at Hegel's stuff, despite its apparent importance. At moment it is the politics that strikes me as most interesting in Hegel. This is cultured consciousness, pre-Marx.
| 5014 | We can understand thinking occuring without imagination or sensation [Descartes] |
| 20741 | Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts [Hegel, by Aho] |
| 22212 | Pure consciousness is a sealed off system of actual Being [Husserl] |
| 6151 | Sartre says consciousness is just directedness towards external objects [Sartre, by Rowlands] |
| 24016 | Consciousness always transcends itself [Sartre] |
| 7437 | Consciousness and experience of qualities are not the same [Armstrong] |
| 21890 | Heidegger showed that passing time is the key to consciousness [Derrida] |
| 3479 | The mind experiences space, but it is not experienced as spatial [Searle] |
| 3286 | An organism is conscious if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism [Nagel] |
| 9319 | Is consciousness a type of self-awareness, or is being self-aware a way of being conscious? [Gulick] |
| 2391 | Can we be aware but not conscious? [Chalmers] |
| 4931 | Consciousness is a process (of neural interactions), not a location, thing, property, connectivity, or activity [Edelman/Tononi] |