midpoint --- hegel and his philosophy

Spirit/Mind
by
G.W.F. Hegel
Jena
8 Germinal,1807

Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes in English

Translated
by
David Healan
Berlin
April 2007 - April 2008

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Contents

[to "System of Science" in two volumes, this being volume one]

The Pursuit of Scientific Knowledge

1. Concept: truth's element; scientific system: truth's true form 2. Spirit/mind's current standpoint 3. Principle not completion; against formalism 4. a. Absolute is subject – 4. b. – and what this means 5. Element of knowledge 6. Rising into that element is what this book is all about 7. a. Turning imaging and familiarity into thought – 7. b. – and that into the concept 8. Negative book? How false? 9. Historical and mathematical truth 10. a. Philosophical truth and its method – 10. b. – against schematizing formalism 11. Requirements for studying philosophy 12. a. Ratiocinative thinking negative – 12. b. – positive, its subject 13. Natural philosophizing: common sense, genius 14. Conclusion – author and public

Introduction

[to "Science of the Experience of Consciousness", originally encompassing this (then untitled) and the first four chapters]

A. Consciousness

Chapter I. Sense Certainty – This and Mean

[ 1. This ] [ 2. Mean ] [ 3. Whole and point ] [ 4. Reception becomes perception ]

Chapter II. Perception – Thing and Deception

[ 1. Thing of many properties ] [ 2. Deception becomes reflection ] [ 3. Whole again ] [ 4. Perception becomes understanding ]

Chapter III. Force and Understanding – Appearance and Extrasensory World

[ 1. Understanding ] [ 2. Force ] [ 3. Syllogistic motion – midpoint: appearance ] [ 4. Law of force ] [ 5. Magnetic idealism? – Inverted world!] [ 6. Infinite automotion – self-consciousness ]

B. Self-Consciousness

Chapter IV. Truth of Self-Certainty

[ 1. Desire and life ]       [ 2. Infinite substance ]       [ 3. Self-certainty ]

A. Independence and dependence of self-consciousness – lordship and bondage
[ 1. Double meanings ]       [ 2. Power syllogism ]       [ 3. Truth of self-certainty ]       [ 4. Negative midpoint: labour ]

B. Freedom of self-consciousness – stoicism, scepticism and the unhappy consciousness
1. Stoicism       2. Scepticism       3. Unhappy consciousness
[ 4. Threefold motion ]       [ α. Pure consciousness ]       [ β. Single individual ]       [ γ. Being for itself ]

AA. Reason

Chapter V. Certainty and Truth of Reason

[ 1. Category ]

A. Observing reason

a. Observing nature

1.Mere description 2. Characteristics 3. Laws 4. Observing organism α) Organism's relation to the inorganic β) Teleology γ) Inside/outside αα) The inside 5. Laws of its pure moments, sensibility etc. 6. Inside and its outside ββ) Inside and outside as embodied form [ 7. Midpoints: organism and number ] γγ) The outside itself as inside/outside: projecting the organic idea onto the inorganic 8. Organism from this side; its genus, species and individuality [ 9. Syllogism of organic patterning ]

b. Observing self-consciousness in purity and in relation to external reality – logical and psychological laws

1. Logical laws 2. Psychological laws

c. Observing self-consciousness in relation to its immediate reality – physiognomy and phrenology

1. Physiognomy 2. Phrenology [ 3. Category and negativity ]

B. Self-realization of rational self-consciousness

[ 1. Happiness and the individual ] [ 2. Selfless predicate ]

a. Pleasure and necessity

[ 1. Faust and the earth spirit ] [ 2. Circle of categories ]

b. Law of the heart and the madness of conceit

[ 1. Happy unity ] [ 2. Madness of conceit ] [ 3. Way of the world and virtue ]

c. Virtue and the way of the world

[ 1. Virtue's ambush ] [ 2. Hollow victory ] [ 3. End in itself ]

C. Individuality in and for itself real to itself

a. Spirit/mind animal kingdom and deception, the matter itself

[ 1. Animal kingdom of spirit/mind ] [ 2. Matter itself idealsim ] [ 3. Deception ] [ 4. Substance is subject ]

b. Reason making law

[ 1. Commandments not laws ] [ 2. Non-contradiction ]

c. Reason scrutinizing law

[ 1. Principle of non-contradiction – tautology ] [ 2. Laws not commandments ] [ 3. Antigone's unwritten laws ]

BB. Spirit/Mind

Chapter VI. Mindful Spirit

A. True spirited mind: customary ethical order

[ 1. Infinite midpoint ]

a. Customary ethical world, human and divine law, man and woman

[ 1. Human and divine law ] [ 2. Man and woman ] [ 3. Midpoint woman ]

b. Customary ethical action, human and divine knowledge, guilt and fate

[ 1. Action ] [ 2. Guilt ] [ 3. Oedipus ] [ 4. Antigone ] [ 5. Eteocles and Polyneices ]

c. Legal status

[ 1. Roman emperor – lord of the world ]

B. Self-alienated spirited mind, culture and education

I. Self-alienated mindful spirit's world

a. Education and culture and their realm of reality

[ 1. Good and bad, power and wealth ] [ 2. Spirit/mind proposition ] [ 3. State power syllosigsm ] [ 4. Government ] [ 5. Spirit/mind syllogism ] [ 6. Elastic self ] [ 7. Identical judgement, infinite proposition ]

b. Faith and pure insight

[ 1. Flight from the world – religion ] [ 2. Three angles ] [ 3. Self as infinite proposition ]

II. The Enlightenment

a. Enlightenment's struggle with superstition

[ 1. Born of substance ] [ 2. Enlightenment's experience of faith ] [ 3. Faith's experience of Enlightenment ] [ 4. Enlightenment's positive reality ] [ 5. Utility ] [ 6. Predicate-free absolute ]

b. Enlightenment's truth

III. Absolute freedom and the Terror

C. Morality – spirited mind certain of itself

a. Moral world view

[ 1. Duty ] [ 2. Circle of postulates ] [ 3. Demonstrating moral self-consciousness ]

b. Duplicity

c. Conscience, beautiful soul, evil and its forgiveness

[ 1. Third world – third self ] [ 2. Circle of self ] [ 3. Beautiful soul ] [ 4. Evil ] [ 5. Forgiveness ]

CC. Religion

Chapter VII. Religion

A. Natural religion

a. Light god

b. Plant and animal

c. Craft master

B. Art religion

a. Abstract artwork

b. Living artwork

c. Spiritual artwork

[ 1. Comedy and tragedy ] [ 2. Mask and choir ] [ 3. Apollo and Hamlet ] [ 4. Depopulating heaven ]

C. Revealed religion

[ 1. God evolves into man ] [ 2. God is dead ] [ 3. God is born ] [ 4. Ecce homo ] [ 5. Revealed, absolute religion ] [ 6. Father and son] [ 7. Good and evil ] [ 8. Third element: community ] [ 9. Real mother ]

DD. Absolute Knowledge

Chapter VIII. Absolute Knowledge

[ 1. Universal syllogism and infinite proposition ] [ 2. Utility and morality ] [ 3. Religion and concept ] [ 4. Substance is subject – absolute knowledge ] [ 5. Time and science ] [ 6. Conclusion]