On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:36 AM bill.hord bill.hord@... [hegel] <hegel@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

John, I was responding to this mail:

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Hello Stephen,

 

The Unhappy Consciousness section is explicitly a triad for Hegel. He numbers the moments. It is explicitly presented as a syllogism.

 

The first moment is that which is the unhappy consciousness properly speaking: where God is everything and the world and man are nothing. This is the universal moment.

 

The second moment could be called the moment of true infinity. This is where the religious consciousness goes about his business in  this world, engaged with this world, but dedicating his intra-worldly activities and productions to God. This is the particular moment.

 

The third moment is, as I mentioned earlier, where the religious person confesses his sins to the Priest. As the mediator between God and man the priest becomes the embodiment of the 'I' of reason. This is the individual moment.

 

If I may say so, every octave that makes up the Phenomenology of Spirit ends with a similar syllogism. The fist octave, for instance, that of the Consciousness section, ends with the syllogism of The Inverted World, True Infinity, the 'I' of Reason--Universal, Particular, Individual.

 

I think Wahl only deals with the first moment, with the unhappy consciousness properly speaking. In the 1920s ( I think it was) just to present one idea from Hegel was probably all that was possible. But beginning, at any rate, with the translation and commentary of Hypolite in the 1940s, much more is possible today.

 

John""

Bill 

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Hello Bill,

I am glad that you read what I wrote here, as it was particularly addressed to your remarks recently about the syllogism in the Phenomenology.

I read what I wrote--and I didn't mention the word "God" once.

I backed off from my assertion about Neo-Platonism because Neo-Platonism is somewhat late. But this third to Stoicism and Skepticism is, then, without question, a precursor to Neo-Platonism.

But it all does really have to do with God. In the first form of unhappy consciousness God is simply the universal. In the second form, which is, basically, true infinity, it is the holiness of the particular. And the third form is ultimately the 'I' of reason where the priest is the mediator between God and man.

Hegel then moves to the third moment which is Reason--a moment truly without God. But, to a large extent, Hegel makes fun of reason. It is only its transition to spirit where it begins to really make sense.

But the final three moments of the Phenomenology as a whole are, first, Revealed Religion, which corresponds to the Inverted World or the first form of the unhappy consciousness, then Absolute Knowing (which is simply Hegelian philosophy) which corresponds to true infinity, and finally the Preface (otherwise titled Scientific Cognition) which corresponds to the 'I' of reason. Truly a grand syllogism.

John

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