Hegel on the Concept in General (Part Two)

First English translation of Hegel's Science of Logic (1929).

This concluding post (of two) on Hegel's essay on "The Concept in General" from the Science of Logic relates his view of reason to the idea of self-consciousness drawn from Kant's critical philosophy.

Jean Wahl and Hegel-scholarship in the Age of Existentialism (Part Two)

The first edition of Wahl's book on Hegel (1929).

This post completes our discussion of French philosopher Jean Wahl's Le Malheur de la conscience dans la philosophie de Hegel [The Misfortune of Consciousness in Hegel's Philosophy] (1929). We outline the reception of the idea of "unhappy consciousness" which is central to Wahl's interpretation of Hegel and then evaluate his understanding of the idea.

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.

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).

John Macmurray’s Early Milieu

This post reproduces Stephen Cowley's article in the John Macmurray Fellowship Newsletter 24 (2009). The article relates some central ideas of the personalist philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976) to those of his British Idealist teachers in Glasgow (see photo above, from Kelvingrove Park) and Oxford. The Idealist movement flourished in Victorian and early 20th century Britain, seeking to develop ideas drawn from Kant and Hegel by way of a critique of contemporary empiricist and scientific thought on society and the nature of the mind.

The John Macmurray Fellowship website can be found here.