Philosophy of Mind: Translated from the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences With Five Introductory Essays by William Wallace - Hardcover

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605203874 ISBN 13: 9781605203874

Publisher: Cosimo Inc, 2008

Synopsis

An easy-to-digest introduction the “science of the experience of consciousness” as the German Idealist philosopher GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770–1831) understood it, this condensed version of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit―which the author created himself for his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences―explores Hegel’s take on: · what mind is · the sensibility of the “physical soul” · the immediacy of the “feeling soul” · consciousness and the intellect · the theoretical mind · memory, intuition, and imagination · the morality of conscience · moral life, or social ethics · revealed religion in the “absolute mind” · and much more. This 1894 translation of the 1827–1830 German original, by Scottish philosopher and Oxford University professor WILLIAM WALLACE (1843–1897), remains a favorite of Hegel students, and is celebrated for its style and eloquence.

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German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was an important figure of German idealism. He achieved wide renown within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition. Hegel's principal achievement is his development of a distinctive articulation of idealism sometimes termed "absolute idealism". His philosophy of spirit conceptually integrates psychology, the state, history, art, religion, and philosophy. His account of the master–slave dialectic has been highly influential, especially in 20th-century France. Of special importance is his concept of spirit (Geist: sometimes also translated as "mind") as the historical manifestation of the logical concept and the "sublation" of seemingly contradictory or opposing factors; examples include the apparent opposition between nature and freedom and between immanence and transcendence. Hegel has been seen in the 20th century as the originator of the thesis, antithesis, synthesis triad; however, as an explicit phrase, this originated with Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Karl Barth described Hegel as a "Protestant Aquinas". Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote that "All the great philosophical ideas of the past century—the philosophies of Marx and Nietzsche, phenomenology, German existentialism, and psychoanalysis—had their beginnings in Hegel."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cosimo Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605203874
• ISBN 13: 9781605203874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212