My thoughts on unhappy consciousness are still in a state of flux. However, I’d like to start a thread examining the use of the concept of unhappy consciousness in the reason chapter of the Phenomenol

In the Actualizing Reason chapter of the Phenomenology, hegel embarks on the path of demonstrating how ethical life or substance, where life or substance mean not life simple but life or substance as

Hi everybody, I posted a fairly long "review discussion" of Karen Ng's book on my blog (robertmwallace.blogspot.com) recently. Best to all, Bob wallace On 9/4/20, 9:07 PM, "hegel@groups.io on behalf

I am a novice FYI. Reading Marcuse’s book “Hegel’s Ontology...” And it occurs to me: is there any really clear concept of immediate being? Just the mere thought of immediate being establishes some med

Srivats, your emails suggest several issues that I want to address. My first reply was a sort of catch-all. First, there’s the issue of the transition between 253 and 254 that you began with. As I mea

Stephen, not to deny that religion gives us a sense of the whole, but to qualify in this sense: already in Chapter 1, experience gives us a sense of the whole, and in fact experience of particulars gi

Dear group, Today is Hegel‘s 250th birthday. I hope we can honour his memory in this list and in the hegel.net website. Thanks for participating in our project/voyage exploring and studying the philos

Dear Friends, Our local reading group has come to the end of the Observing Reason chapter and we are going into the transitional paragraphs 344-346 in this chapter and 347-353 in the Actualization cha

Please forum-members, some lockdown help. In an old notebook I found: “the natural but wrong-headed instinct of cognition to make its own self an object of knowledge” “the activity of the finite intel

Hello all, The translator divides the Introduction into three sections. Here I discuss the first two. The first addresses two potential challenges to the philosophical investigation of art. These are

There is a lot in this section that bothers me. This turns out to provide the occasion to more fully air my larger objection to Hegel’s mode of presentation. Perhaps I will follow-up with something mo

Is this list moderated? After posting, I got a fake email supposedly from the UK eBay site trying to get my password. The same thing happened just after my last post. Would be great if someone could s

This is a response to an essay by Stephen Theron on the unhappy consciousness contained in a manuscript on Trinity, Hegel and Aquinas. I can agree with Van Riet's statement, as cited, that the Trinita

Hello all, “The mere theoretician or, as Socrates calls him, the philodoxus, strives only after speculative knowledge, without caring how much his knowledge contributes to the ultimate end of human re

Any interest in a reading group? Email if cost is an issue. PJ

Hello Beat, I am a subscriber to the Hegel group which you have kindly transferred to Groups.io at your expense. I think for some reason the external messages to the group are not moderated. Because o

This is what I found in my trash. Sorry Kai, this particular message is as you said, from the Yahoo group, which from which I will 'dismember' myself immediately! Best Srivats ---------- Forwarded mes

I have been thinking a more about the structure of the Phenomenology of Spirit and my difficulties with Chapter Four, having finished the book (except for Chapter Five). My feeling is that the structu

As I write, the groups seems to have gone quiet and Scotland is on lockdown over the coronavirus (Covid-19) public health situation. I have continued reading Chapter 7 of the Phenomenology on Religion

Friends As I proceeded through preparing Observation of Nature for today's discussion (Miller, 249-258) I have been puzzling over a somewhat weird or forced, yet intuitively quite profound, transition