Phenomenology of Spirit — G. W. F. Hegel

822 Phenomenology of Mind womb of knowledge — is the new stage of existence, a new world, and a new type and mode of Spirit. Here it has to begin all over again at its immediacy,* as freshly as before, and thence rise once more to the measm:e of its stature, as if, for it, all that preceded were lost, and as if it had learned nothing from the experience of the spirits that preceded.

But re-collection {Erinnerung) has conserved that experience, and is the inner being, and, in fact, the higher form of the substance. While, then, this phase of Spirit begins all over again its formative development, apparently starting solely from itself, yet at the same time it commences at a higher level.

The realm of spirits developed in this way, and assuming definite shape in existence, constitutes a succession, where one detaches and sets loose the other, and each takes over from its predecessor the empire of the spiritual world. The goal of the process is the revelation of the depth of spiritual hfe, and this is the Absolute Notion.

This revelation consequently means superseding its " depth," is its " extension '' or spatial embodiment, the negation of this subjectivity of the ego — a negativity which is its self-rehnquishment, its externahsation, or its substance : and this revelation is also its temporal embodiment, in that this externalisation in its very nature relinquishes, externahses itself, and so exists at once in its spatial " extension " as well as in its " depth " or the self.

The goal, vv^iich is Absolute Knowledge or Spirit knowing itself as Spirit, finds its pathway in the recollection of spiritual forms as they are in themselves and as they accomphsh the organisation of their spiritual kingdom. Their conservation, looked * Cp. Aristotle, Mctap., KYtlh, " Movement can neither come into being, nor cease to be ; nor can time come into being or cease to be."

Absolute Knowledge 823 at from the side of their free phenomenal existence in the sphere of contingency, is History ; looked at from the side of their conceptually comprehended organisation, it is the Science of phenomenal knowledge, of the ways in which knowledge appears.* Both together, or History comprehended conceptually, form at once the recollection and the golgotha of Absolute Spirit, the reahty, the truth, the certainty of its throne, without which it were hfeless, sohtary, and alone. Only This" chalice of God's plenitude Yields foaming His Infinitude, f * "Phenomenology." t Adaptation of Schiller's Die Freundschaft ad fin. ; cp. also Schiller's Philos. Briefe, " 6^0«."

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HEGEL THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND

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THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND

G. W. F. HEGEL TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY J. B. BAILLIE

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Volume II CONTENTS

(BE). SPIRIT VI. Spirit ....... A. Objective Spirit : the ethical order . a. The ethical world : law divine and human : man and woman .... [1 Nation and family. («) Human law. (6) Divine law. (c) The claims of the individual. 2 The process involved in these two laws, (o) Government as positive power, war as negative. (6) The ethical relation of man and woman as brother and sister, (c) The interfusion of the two laws. 3. The ethical world as infinitude or selfcomplete totality.] h. Ethical action : knowledge human and Divine : guilt and Destiny .... [1. Contradiction of individuality with its essence. 2. Opposite characteristics of ethical action. 3. Dissolution of the ethical being.] c. Legal status ..... [1. Personality. 2. Contingency of the person. 3. The lord of the world ; the absolute person.]

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