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Single Idea 21773

[filed under theme 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 Ref

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]


The 28 ideas from 'Phenomenology of Spirit'

Philosophy aims to reveal the necessity and rationality of the categories of nature and spirit [Hegel, by Houlgate]
The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard]
I develop philosophical science from the simplest appearance of immediate consciousness [Hegel, by Hegel]
Genuine idealism is seeing the ideal structure of the world [Hegel, by Houlgate]
Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being [Hegel, by Houlgate]
Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts [Hegel, by Pinkard]
Hegel claims knowledge of self presupposes desire, and hence objects [Hegel, by Scruton]
For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world [Hegel, by Scruton]
Modern life needs individuality, but must recognise that human agency is social [Hegel, by Pinkard]
History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom [Hegel]
Consciousness is shaped dialectically, by opposing forces and concepts [Hegel, by Aho]
God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker [Hegel, by Feuerbach]
Hegel made the last attempt to restore Christianity, which philosophy had destroyed [Hegel, by Feuerbach]
Consciousness is both of objects, and of itself [Hegel]
Consciousness derives its criterion of knowledge from direct knowledge of its own being [Hegel]
Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons [Hegel]
The God of revealed religion can only be understood through pure speculative knowledge [Hegel]
Philosophy moves essentially in the element of universality [Hegel]
The Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, but felt and intuited [Hegel]
In the Absolute everything is the same [Hegel]
The true is the whole [Hegel]
The in-itself must become for-itself, which requires self-consciousness [Hegel]
The movement of pure essences constitutes the nature of scientific method [Hegel]
Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions [Hegel]
Science confronts the inner necessities of objects [Hegel]
Being is Thought [Hegel]
Without philosophy, science is barren and futile [Hegel]
Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds [Hegel]