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Single Idea 5648

[from 'Phenomenology of Spirit' by Georg W.F.Hegel, in 16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct ]

Full Idea

Hegel tries to show that knowledge of self as subject presupposes not just knowledge of objects, but knowledge of a public social world, in which there is moral order and civic trust.

Gist of Idea

For Hegel knowledge of self presupposes objects, and also a public and moral social world

Source

report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807]) by Roger Scruton - Short History of Modern Philosophy Ch.12

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'A Short History of Modern Philosophy' [ARK 1985], p.177


A Reaction

This is not far off Wittgenstein's private language argument. It is also Popper's 'World Three', of society and language. Human reality is incomprehensible without some recognition of the culture in which we immerse, like fish in water.