Hegel Flashcards
What century philosophy is he from?
19th century
What type of thinker is he known as?
Known as a dialectical thinker, his thinking reflects thinking itself, thought
Hegel is known for being an BLANK and BLANK philosopher but he is a BLANK, BLANK, BLANK philosopher (based on BLANK itself)
-obscure, difficult
-systematic, historical, dialectic (based on consciousness itself)
What is speculative language? What is he trying to say in his language? Give an example
(6 pts)
-Reflects the nature of thought
-Thought is the identity of identity and difference- identity and difference are correlated
-He is trying to, in his language, say what is and what isn’t
-Things that are, is also what is not
Ex- I am a man. I am not a woman. The fact that I am not a woman is also part of my identity. My identity of being a man involves my difference from womanhood. That difference is part of who I am.
-This exemplifies that the truth is never unilateral
What does ‘S=O’ signify?
(4 pts)
-Subjectivity (the self) and objectivity (the world) —> called absolute knowing ‘S=O’
-No difference between the two, they are one?
-Each of us is a self in that we exist for ourselves as well as for otherness—we are both objects and subjects, part of one reality, and we come to know selves through our interaction with this otherness
-My meaning is derived from my relationship to otherness
What is so big about consciousness?
(5 pts)
-Consciousness is always both what is and what is not
-Consciousness only arises when I am in opposition with an object
-Consciousness develops when the object is no longer us (according to Freud)
-It is a knowing relation between subjectivity and objectivity
-Consciousness begins when there is this separation between subjectivity and objectivity
What does he mean by forms of consciousness have a history?
-History itself is the history of forms of consciousness
How do we move from one form of consciousness to the next?
(5 pts)
-Forms of consciousness are self moving- they move from one to the next
-Tension causes difference—> tension between subject and object
-The thoughts and thinking of my self (subjectivity) comes out of itself and goes into the object (the world) and determining it in some kind of way
-Allows me to recognize myself in that object because this object carries my selfhood, my thinking (being ourselves is a form of freedom) that is now in it
-Objectifying my freedom into something
-Ex- sculpting (subjectivity)—> creating an object (objectively-an apple core)
-Now I can say I sculpted that myself, I recognize myself in that sculpture because it came from my thinking, my subjectivity
-Objectifying my freedom into something, objecting my freedom into a stone object (apple core))
What is his dialectical aspect?
History is driven by contradiction
