- Dear Group,Phenomenology of Spirit Perception # 124Hegel speaks of determinate characteristic constituting its essential character and assuming a form with many qualities in it. He is not referring to absolute being here. He refers only to the perception of the thing and its interaction with consciousness. Consequentially the determinate characteristic gives ‘the essence of the thing,’ but an essence which is only relative to consciousness and its formation of its object, in the perception mode of limited being. We need this ‘essential’ determinate characteristic because it must be distinguished from other determinate characteristics. Once again we are back to ‘opposition’ of the one perception of one thing and its developing object and the perception of another thing with its developing object.Regards,Bob Fanelli
Bob,
In 124, having already found that the object is necessarily a "one" -- that is, a unit, a single individual -- he now works through the differences that inhere in the system of objects/things, and, more importantly, in individual objects/things. In this section he is distinguishing two kinds of those differences: essential properties and accidental (unessential) properties.
"As a matter of fact, since differentness is present in it [the object, the thing], it is of course necessarily present as an actual difference manifoldly constituted. But because the determinateness constitutes the essence of the Thing, by which it distinguishes itself from other Things and is for itself, this further manifold constitution is the unessential aspect."
Hegel is exploring how a thing [comprised of universals] can 1) be a determinate unit or thing, 2) have essential properties (determinations) that make it precisely that thing with those universal properties, and 3) how a thing can have properties that are unessential to that thing (such as a context).
Bill
"All things exist, yet they do not exist equally." (Ian Bogost)
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Subject: [hegel] Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit # 124
Dear Group,
Phenomenology of Spirit Perception # 124Hegel speaks of determinate characteristic constituting its essential character and assuming a form with many qualities in it. He is not referring to absolute being here. He refers only to the perception of the thing and its interaction with consciousness. Consequentially the determinate characteristic gives ‘the essence of the thing,’ but an essence which is only relative to consciousness and its formation of its object, in the perception mode of limited being. We need this ‘essential’ determinate characteristic because it must be distinguished from other determinate characteristics. Once again we are back to ‘opposition’ of the one perception of one thing and its developing object and the perception of another thing with its developing object.
Regards,
Bob Fanelli
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