Hegel on Observation and Self-observation (From Phenomenology of Spirit)

Title page of first edition of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).

This post is a commented abstract of the first third of the reason chapter of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), which deals with logic, psychology and other sciences of human self-observation.

"Religion expresses what spirit is earlier in time than science." (Part Two)

Church carving of Christ's crucifixion, in Stuttgart Landesmuseum

This and the previous post are a reading of the section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) on Christianity. In this post, I deal with the final section on the doctrine of the church.

"Religion expresses what spirit is earlier in time than science." (Part One)

Church carving of Christ's crucifixion, in Stuttgart Landesmuseum

This and the following post are a reading of the section of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) on Christianity. The title quote is from Phenomenology (para 802), translating "Wissenschaft" as science.

Review of "Hegel's Career and Politics" by Mehmet Tabak

We review a recent Hegel-biography, Hegel's Career and Politics: The Making of the Most Famous Philosopher in Germany, 1788-1831, by Mehmet Tabak.

The Skeptical Origin of the Divided Consciousness

The collection Between Kant and Hegel (1985) contains Hegel's essay on skepticism in English translation.

This post summaries some background reading on the problem of the origin of the unchangeable wing of the unhappy or divided consciousness out of skepticism in Chapter Four of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

Thought and Action in Richard Kroner's Hegel-scholarship

French translation (2015) of Richard Kroner's Von Kant bis Hegel (1921-24).

This post compares the theme of the relations of thought and action in Richard Kroner's and John Macmurray’s philosophy.

Hegel and Jacobi on Skepticism and Christianity

Portrait of F.H. Jacobi (1743-1819), by Johann Friedrich Eich, 1780.

This post is a reading of F.H. Jacobi’s Letters on Spinoza (1785) and dialogue David Hume on Faith (1787) with a view to shedding light on Hegel's view of the relationship between skepticism and Christianity in the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).