Structure of the Phenomenology #3

The Structure of the Phenomenology #3 : The Structure of the Phenomenology #3 Basic Hegel Series

A Video Presentation by Robbert Veen : A Video Presentation by Robbert Veen Hegelcourses.com (c) 2010

Overview : Overview The truth of consciousness The meaning of the first three parts "Consciousness" "Self-Consciousness" "Reason"

The Truth of Consciousness : The Truth of Consciousness The Structure of the Phenomenology #3.1

The Truth of Consciousness : The Truth of Consciousness Truth in itself is reached in chapter VI: The Immediate Spirit Self-movement of the Spirit as Consciousness Universal structure of consciousness that is reality and "world"  in the life of a people.

Par. 438 : Par. 438 REASON is spirit, when its certainty of being all reality has been  raised to the level of truth, and reason is consciously aware of itself  as its own world, and of the world as itself. The development of spirit  was indicated in the immediately preceding movement of mind, where the  object of consciousness, the category pure and simple, rose to be the  notion of reason. When reason "observes", this pure unity of ego and existence, the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, of  for−itself−ness and in−itself−ness−this unity is immanent, has the  character of implicitness or of being; and consciousness of reason  finds itself.

Par. 440 : Par. 440 Spirit is thus the self−supporting absolutely real ultimate being  (Wesen). All the previous modes of consciousness are abstractions from  it: they are constituted by the fact that spirit analyses itself,  distinguishes its moments, and halts at each individual mode in turn.

Par. 440 : Par. 440 The isolating of such moments presupposes spirititself and requires  spirit for its subsistence, in other words, this isolation of modes  only exists within spirit, which is existence. Taken in isolation they  appear as if they existed as they stand. But their advance and return  upon their real ground and essential being showed that they are merely  moments or vanishing quantities; and this essential being is precisely  this movement and resolution of these moments.

Par. 440 : Par. 440 Here, where spirit, the  reflexion of these moments into itself, has become established, our  reflexion may briefly recallthem in this connexion: they were  consciousness, self− consciousness, and reason. Spirit is thus Consciousness in general, which contains sense−certainty, perception  and understanding, so far as in analyzing its own self it holds fast by  the moment of being a reality objective to itself, and by abstraction eliminates the fact that this reality is its own self objectified, its  own self−existence.

Par. 440 : Par. 440 When again it holds fast by the other abstract  moment produced by analysis, the fact that its object is its own self  become objective to itself, is its self−existence, then it is  Self−consciousness. But as immediate consciousness of its inherent and its explicit being, of its immanent self and its objective self, as the  unity of consciousness andself−consciousness, it is that type of  consciousness which has Reason: it is the consciousness which, as theword "have" indicates,  has the object in a shape which is implicitly  and inherently rational, or is categorized,

Par. 442 : Par. 442 The living ethical world is spirit in its truth. As it first comes  to an abstract knowledge of its essential nature, ethical life  (Sittlichkeit) is destroyed in the formal universality of right or  legality (Recht). Spirit, being now sundered within itself, traces one  of its worlds in the element of its objectivity as in a crass solid  actuality; this is the realm of Culture and Civilization; while over  against this in the element of thought is traced theworld of Belief or  Faith, the realm of the Inner Life and Truth (Wesen).

The Truth of Consciousness : The Truth of Consciousness The philosophical understanding of the history of consciousness has now become consciousness of the history of the life of a people.   Consciousness of historical world = thesis Self-consciousness (Religion) = anti-thesis Absolute Knowledge = sublation and synthesis of consciousness and self-consciousness (Spirit and Religion)

The Meaning of the First Three Chapters : The Meaning of the First Three Chapters The Structure of the Phenomenology #3.2

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters C, SC, V are abstracted, isolated moments of Spirit   They are here as separate moments and as inner moments of Reason etc. In a concrete human subject: the tree moments present in some  "arrangement"    In the (remembrance of the) history of Spirit these moments are abstracted out of the concrete whole and treated as separate shapes of consciousness.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Consciousness:   Movement is the sublation of the opposition between abstract singular subject and abstract singular object. Indirect  - through the change in the object - development of inner dynamics By changing the (concept of) the object, consciousness also changes its relationship to its object. It transforms itself in this manner

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Consciousness:   In Force and Understanding consciousness realizes that it itself is truth. It "perceives" the inner dynamics of its object its own distinguishing, itself as the essence of the object.

Par. 166 : Par. 166 Self-Consciousness   IN the kinds of certainty hitherto considered, the truth for  consciousness is something other than consciousness itself. The  conception, however, of this truth vanishes in the course of our  experience of it. What the object immediately was in itself−−whether  mere being in sense−certainty, a concrete thing in perception, or force  in the case of understanding−−it turns out, in truth, not to be this  really; but instead, this inherent nature (Ansich) proves to be a way  in which it is for an other.

Par. 166 : Par. 166 The abstract conception of the object gives way before the actual concrete object, or the first immediate  idea is cancelled in the course of experience. Mere certainty vanished  in favour of the truth. There has now arisen, however, what was not established in the case of these previous relationships, viz. a  certainty which is on a par with its truth, for the certainty is to  itself its own object, and consciousness is to itself the truth.

Par. 166 : Par. 166 Otherness, no doubt, is also found there; consciousness, that is, makes  a distinction; but what is distinguished is of such a kind that consciousness, at the same time, holds there is no distinction made.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Self-consciousness:   So: consciousness is inner distinction (subject is not object)  and renewed unity (subject equals object) Immediate self-consciousness It is itself truth, but acts as "sensuous desire"

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Self-consciousness:   Sensuous desire takes its object no longer as an independent being, but as something that is relative to itself. It focuses on its inner lack and recognizes that in its object. In consumption and use it achieves the immediate certainty of itself. It also renews itself continuously and does not achieve ultimate satisfaction.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Self-consciousness:   It experiences that its external object can be "reflected within itself" as life and consciousness. That object also acts as a self-consciousness.  SC desires the other, the other desires it. (To be used as a means to achieve unity with itself.) = negative power.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Self-consciousness:   Beginning of the actual dialectical experience: redoubled subject (not: interaction between two subjects) True self consciousness is SC as it appears to itself in the shape of two separate " instances" of SC.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Self-consciousness:   Transition from certainty to truth - SC sublates the opposition between the one abstract, singular subject against the other - movement of recognition; struggle for life and death - by recognizing that what seems to be between two subjects actually is one movement of SC within itself. To recognize oneself within the other and thereby restoring the inner unity.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Self-consciousness:   This inner unity of consciousness and self-consciousness is still only internal, resulting in the repeat performance of the same movement, now within one single consciousness:  Stoic SC Unhappy Consciousness Contradiction between itself as dynamic consciousness and the ultimate Essence of reality, projected into Infinity.

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Reason: Contradiction between itself as dynamic consciousness and the ultimate Essence of reality, projected into Infinity = UC Now becomes the certainty to be all of reality. This certainty exists only in the shape of the immediate concept; the description of reality.  Reason is " I", category,  immediate certainty to be one with universal thought in its own particularity. No longer abstract singular subject but concrete singular subject. (Not yet universal subject).

The meaning of the first three chapters : The meaning of the first three chapters Reason: Subject here is: unity of transcendental apperception (Kant), I (Fichte) Abstract immediate awareness to be all reality. Repeating the former movement:   Consciousness - Observing Reason Self-Consciousness - Actualizing Reason Reason-Reason: Individuality that is to itself real   Spirit: the Truth of all of this, the inner substance: Concrete universal subject

Summary : Summary The Structure of the Phenomenology #3.3

The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology : The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology Consciousness   Self-consciousness   Reason Immediate Spirit Religion Absolute Knowledge

The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology : The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology Sense Certainty Perception Force and Understanding Lordship and Bondage Stoicism/Skepticism Unhappy Consciousness

The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology : The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology Observing Reason Actualizing Reason Concrete Universal Reason Consciousness Self-Consciousness Reason

The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology : The Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology Immediate Spirit Religion Absolute Knowledge Consciousness Self-Consciousness Reason

The Structure of the Phenomenology#3 : The Structure of the Phenomenology#3 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS VIDEO! Robbert Veen (c) 2010