The Phenomenology of Mind

By Hegel, Georg

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Preface: ON SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE In the case of a philosophical work it seems not only superfluous, but, in view of the nature of philosophy, even inappropriate and misleading to begin, as writers usually do in a preface, by explaining the end the author had in mind, the circumstances which gave rise to the work, and the relation in which the writer takes it to stand to other treatises on the same subject, written by his predecessors or his contemporaries. For whatever it might be suitable to state about philosophy in a preface?say, an historical sketch of the main drift and point of view, the general content and results, a string of desultory assertions and assurances about the truth?this cannot be accepted as the form and manner in which to expound philosophical truth.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND, 1 -- G. W. F. HEGEL, 1 -- Preface: ON SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, 2 -- Introduction, 28 -- A. CONSCIOUSNESS(1), 33 -- I. CERTAINTY AT THE LEVEL OF SENSE?EXPERIENCE?THE THIS, AND -- MEANING, 34 -- II. PERCEPTION: OR THINGS AND THEIR DECEPTIVENESS(1), 39 -- III. FORCE AND THE UNDERSTANDING?THE WORLD OF APPEARANCE AND THE -- SUPERSENSIBLE WORLD(1), 46 -- B. SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS(1), 60 -- IV. THE TRUTH WHICH CONSCIOUS CERTAINTY OF SELF REALIZES, 60 -- THE TRUTH WHICH CONSCIOUS CERTAINTY OF SELF REALIZES, 60 -- A. INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE OF SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS, 64 -- LORDSHIP AND BONDAGE, 64 -- B. FREEDOM OF SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS: STOICISM: SCEPTICISM: THE UNHAPPY -- CONSCIOUSNESS, 69 -- C. [FREE CONCRETE MIND](1), 80 -- AA. REASON(2), 80 -- REASON'S CERTAINTY AND REASON'S TRUTH, 81 -- A. OBSERVATION AS A PROCESS OF REASON, 85 -- a(1). OBSERVATION OF NATURE, 86 -- a (2). OBSERVATION OF ORGANIC NATURE, 90 -- b. OBSERVATION OF SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS PURE FORM AND IN ITS -- RELATION TO EXTERNAL REALITY?LOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS, 104 -- b. OBSERVATION OF SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS PURE FORM AND IN ITS -- RELATION TO EXTERNAL REALITY?LOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LAWS, 104 -- c. OBSERVATION OF THE RELATION OF SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS -- IMMEDIATE ACTUALITY ? PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY, 108 -- OBSERVATION OF THE RELATION OF SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS TO ITS -- IMMEDIATE ACTUALITY ? PHYSIOGNOMY AND PHRENOLOGY.(1), 108 -- THE REALIZATION OF RATIONAL SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH ITS OWN -- ACTIVITY, 123 -- THE REALIZATION OF RATIONAL SELF?CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH ITS OWN -- ACTIVITY, 123 -- a. PLEASURE AND NECESSITY, 127 -- b. THE LAW OF THE HEART, AND THE FRENZY OF SELF?CONCEIT, 130 -- c. VIRTUE AND THE COURSE OF THE WORLD, 134 -- C. INDIVIDUALITY, WHICH TAKES ITSELF TO BE REAL IN AND FOR ITSELF, 138 -- a. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: SELF?CONTAINED INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED AS A -- COMMUNITY OF ANIMALS, AND THE DECEPTION THENCE ARISING: THE REAL -- FAct, 140 -- SELF?CONSCIOUS INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED AS A COMMUNITY OF ANIMALS -- AND THE DECEPTION THENCE ARISING: THE REAL FAct, 141 -- b. REASON AS LAWGIVER, 149 -- c. REASON AS TESTING LAWS, 151 -- VI. SPIRIT(1), 155 -- A. OBJECTIVE SPIRIT(1) ? THE ETHICAL ORDER(2), 157 -- THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND -- i