Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

26 chapters13h 12mEnglish1910

About this book

Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind, because the German word Geist has both meanings. Phenomenology was the basis of Hegel's later philosophy and marked a significant development in German idealism after Kant. Focusing on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, physics, ethics, history, religion, perception, consciousness, and political philosophy, The Phenomenology is where Hegel develops his concepts of dialectic (including the Master-slave dialectic), absolute idealism, ethical life, and Aufhebung. The book had a profound effect in Western philosophy, and "has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology, and historicist nihilism." - Summary by Wikipedia

Chapters (26)

1Preface part 1

1875

2Preface part 2

1999

3Preface part 3

1948

4Preface part 4

1490

5Introduction: Intention and Method of the Argument of the Phenomenology

1677

6Chapter 1: Sense-certainty, or the this and "meaning"

1557

7Chapter 2: Perception: or things and the deceptive-ness of perceptual experience

2265

8Chapter 3: Force and Understanding: Appearance and the supersensible world; part 1

1599

9Chapter 3: Force and Understanding: Appearance and the supersensible world; part 2

2581

10Chapter 4: The true nature of self-certainty

1466

11Chapter 4A: Independence and Dependence of Self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage

1596

12Chapter 4B: Freedom of Self-consciousness: Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness

3469

13Chapter 5A-a(1): Certainty and Truth of Reason; Observation as a mode of things of Nature

2853

14Chapter 5A-a(2): Observation of organic existence

1765

15Chapter 5A-a(3): Observation of nature as an organic whole

2424

16Chapter 5A-b: Logical and Psychological laws

985

17Chapter 5A-c: Physiognomy and Phrenology; part 1

1682

18Chapter 5A-c: Physiognomy and Phrenology; part 2

2551

19Chapter 5B: Realisation of Rational Self-Consciousness

1230

20Chapter 5B-a: Pleasure and Necessity

768

21Chapter 5B-b: The Law of the Heart and the Frenzy of Self-conceit

1215

22Chapter 5B-c: Virtue and the Course of the World

1321

23Chapter 5C: Individuality, which takes Itself to be Real in and for Itself

394

24Chapter 5C-a: Society as a Herd of Individuals: Deceit: "Actual Fact"

2585

25Chapter 5C-b: Reason as Lawgiver

774

26Chapter 5C-c: Reason as Testing Laws

962

Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

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