All tagged The Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel’s conception of selfhood is amorphous, and gleaning it from the pages of his dense and complex tome, The Phenomenology of Spirit, is no mean feat. However, the picture of Hegelian self which reveals itself to the reader patient enough to tease it out from the idealist Titan’s pages, is as intriguing and it is nuanced and complex.
In this short commentary, I set out to explore the idea of epistemological diremption - which, for Hegel, lies at the kernel of the origin of philosophy itself - particularly as discussed in the introduction of the Phenomenology of Spirit.
At the turn of the 19th century, a group of German philosophers would take changes in epistemology set in motion by Immanuel Kant, and lay them at the foundation of a bold new way of doing metaphysics. These were the so-called Idealists.
