Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes
Hegel's "Unhappy Consciousness" (Part Two)
February 5, 20261h 3m · 10,200 words
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We're up to sec. 208 in The Phenomenology of Spirit, still trying to figure out how and why individual consciousness is related to "The Unchangeable," which could be the Kantian thing-in-itself, or perhaps specifically the human soul as a thing-in-itself, or maybe Platonic Forms or God or some other Parmenidean One. Because this "part two" discussion was so enthralling, I'm sharing it on this feed, but to get parts 3 and 4, you'll need to sign up to support us:
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if there's going to be contingency, like the cat being on the mat or not being on the mat, that data has to be structured. There must be something formal about the data, the manifold that's coming in.
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