midpoint --- hegel and his philosophy

1. Planet Orbits

Hegel's 1801 dissertation, De orbitis planetarum, English translation 2006.

2. Spirit/Mind

Hegel's Phenomenology in a new translation – celebrating the bicentennial of Die Phäomenologie des Geistes, 1807.

First instalment: Easter Monday, 2007:
Preface, Introduction, A. Consciousness

Second: 1 August 2007:
B. Self-Consciousness, C. AA. Reason, A. Observing reason

Third: 1 October 2007
C. AA. Reason, B. Self-realization, C. Individuality; BB. Spirit/Mind, A. Customary ethical order, B. Culture and education, B. I. Self-alienated world

Final: 27 April 2008

Translator's note.
The word Phäomenologie is never used in the body of the book itself, so it has been discarded from the English title. The first English translator, Baillie, rendered Geist in the title with 'mind' and the second, Miller, with 'spirit'. In the text, however, both used both and that is the principle I have adopted in rendering Geist in both title and text. All occurrences of the words 'spirit' and 'mind' alone or together and in all their derivations render exclusively Geist and its derivations with one single exception: the 'meeting of minds' at the end of the Preface (§70). Everything in square brackets has been inserted by the translator. Cross-references with an 'M' inside the closing bracket are taken from the 1988 Meiner German edition. Apart from the Preface, placing the cursor on the paragraph number will show the corresponding paragraph numbers of Miller's translation in Internet Explorer. In addition to the paragraphs, Hegel's sentences have also been numbered to facilitate cross-referencing.