Hegel Notes

-"Phenomenology" coined by the German scientist and mathematician J.H Lambert.
-His phenomenology way to determine the "validity and limitations" of "principles of sensibility" different to conceptual thought.
-leading to a "critique of pure reason"
-never used the term because of the important changes of publishing
-phenomenology- study of phenomenon
-phenomenology of spirit-type of prophetical rather than exercise in it
-compared to Bildungsroman (educational novel) bearer of an evolving series of "shapes of consciousness"
- like an account of interlinked forms of social existence and thought
-when Kant showed the idea of phenomenological prophetical to Lambert, he himself still believed its the project of a purely conceptual metaphysics achievable by the use of the regressive or "analytic method"
-came to dismiss as illusory
-development of a type of social existence which enables a unique form of rationality, replaced by a system to rational self-correction.
-Hegel's terminology are "mediated". Mental representations he calls "intuitions" are "blind"
-nature of conciousness cannot be as originally thought: some implicit universal aspect to them.
-Perception: perceptional realism in which any individuals idiosyncratic private apprehension.
-always been something positive that has been learned in such processes.
-internal contradictions generated a new shape, perception, collapse of any give altitude
-"the understanding"-shape which he identifies with scientific cognition. They are "contradictory"
-self-consciousness. Hegel's notion of "spirit".
-capacity to be "conscious" requires reflexivity of "self-consciousness" awareness of oneself presented as known. recognition "objective spirit"
- further trace the learning path of self-consciousness through the process of "reason" before objective spirit can become the explicit subject matter of spirit.
-social life ordered by customs
-culture-"world of self-alienated spirit"
-not only interact, but collectively created relativity enduring cultural practices.
-revisionists-see Hegel as furthering the Kantian critique
-The standpoint of scenery commission is the science of logic.