Dear People Thank you for a fine response to my suggestion to form a study group.I suggest that we begin with the first six numbered sections in Miller's ...
Jesse Schwartz
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Nov 2, 2007 8:41 am
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I am quite new to online studies. How do I post my comments and notes and where do I do so? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Fabian Just post your comments in the same way you've sent this email, Jesse From: "fabian van onzen" <fabianvanonzen@...> Reply-To:...
Jesse Schwartz
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Nov 4, 2007 7:20 pm
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A few initial thoughts and questions: 1) Thesis 10 reminded me of this from Hegel - "The infinite does not transcend the finite. Rather, it is the very...
I also am' troubled by Hegel's use of the word Science? What does Hegel mean with his use of the terms Idea and Notion? ... [Non-text portions of this message...
The classical idea of science in the European tradition is something like: systematic treatment of a subject in search of universality. This includes the use...
Section 16, cannot be talked about without mentioned Section 15. It appears what Hegel is saying in section 15 is that we have a world-picture in which we...
Tolstoy writing about the early 1800s said "Germans can be self assured on the basis of an abstract idea,science-that is an imaginary knowledge of the perfect...
I thought we were going through section 6? But anyway, I believe in section 15 Hegel is particularly referring to Schelling. Hegel is unhappy with "the...
After section 17, in the preface, I am having a hard time understanding exactly it is Hegel is saying. Can anyone explain the main idea from section 18 to 26. ...
Would it be possible to include direct quotes from Hegel. I'm sure there is an online translation that we can reference. Omar ... From: fabian van onzen...
We had a discussion on the usefulness and relevance of the Phenomenology some one year ago. My main arguments from that discussion can be found here: ...
I believe the first five sections of the Preface are pretty straight- forward. In section 6 Hegel comes to his point, which is: "To lay down that the true...
"17. In my view – a view which the developed exposition of the system itself can alone justify – everything depends on grasping and expressing the ultimate...
I have just joined the group and I have a couple questions. First, has this group already discussed the section on self-consciousness (B.IV)? If so, I would...
Does anyone see a similarity between Hegel's concept of 'Geist"( Spirit), Nietzsche's "Will-to-Power", Heidegger's "Dasein" and Wittgenstein's "World Picture"(...
In a vague way, as they are general, orienting concepts at work in the general idea of experience as a whole. Nietsche's will-to-power is more aesthetic and...
... Spirit), ... Wittgenstein's "World ... all four ... that, but ... examined ... examined what ... examined how ... create a ... Yes, very much so. As...
In 1844 a German journalist named Friedrich Ludwig Lindner wrote a satirical two-act play about Hegel's Phenomenology called *The Absolute Boot, or, The...
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I'm trying to understand the first sentence of #78 in the Phenomenology of Spirit: Natural conciousness will show itself to be only the Notion of knowledge, or...
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... Dear Jim, I think Hegel is referring here to Kant. In fact I think in the paragraph as a whole Hegel is extolling Kant's scepticism in opposition to the...
As part of a class I'm taking, we were given a reading assignment from The Phenomenology which dealt with the Lord-Bondsman parable. In the very first sentence...
Self-consciousness can exist only by being its own object. But to be an object is to be for another. So, Hegel's seems to be saying that consciousness can...
Hi, Hegel often begins with a succinct statement at the start of a chapter and only develops the argument logically later. This is obviously a different mode...
Thanks to all for taking the time to reply. I've sent the followoing response to the list a few days ago but it has yet to appear. My apologies if this...
Self-consciousness can exist only by being its own object. But to be an object is to be for another. So, Hegel's seems to be saying that consciousness can...
I'm just starting to study Hegel, so I am just feeling my way along too. What I've gotten from Harris (Hegel's Ladder) and the J. Bernstein lectures is that...
My understanding is that the possibilities (1) and (2) on your list are done away with in the section on "Consciousness" as presupposing some "powers" ...
Hi Arkadi: Are you suggesting that the proper interpretation is to consider self- consciousness as an act occurring in the present? If that's so, it would...