Hegel Flashcards
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Overview
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- German
- Writes Science of Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit
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Philosophy of Right
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- Freedom in soc can only be realized through robust ethical life
- Like Burke
- State, corporation, family
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Family and Sexism
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- Women stay home, men bring the home life into corporation and state
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‘What is real is rational’
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- Our reason is to understand our world and history
- Reason also unfolds through time and history
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Truth
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- Reason reveals truth about the world
- Know it by exploring our minds
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Freedom
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- Can’t be free in the absence of ethical life
- Individual freedom is only possible through soc and poli structures
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French Revolution
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- Calls Napoleon a turning point in history
- Thinks its nedded by it goes overboard and becomes chaos
- Freedom attached to no community or ethics is meaningless
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History
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- Revealed in Lib Dem
- History is progress
- History is tension between individual and collective
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American Revolution
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- Hates Lockeanness of the US
- US is stunded in historical development
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Kant
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- H likes the Categorical Imperative
- But says Kant focuses too much on abstracting reason from experience
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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- Story of unfolding conciousness
- Art, religion, and philosophy are forms of spirit
- Lutheranism is culmination of religious spirit
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German Idealism
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- Focus on individual nature
- Geist is not static
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Dialectic
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- Thesis, idea or state of affairs
- Antithesis, give rise to its opposite
- Synthesis, tension between two creates more comprehensive understanding
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Role of Negation
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- Movement from thesis to antithesis
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Neutral Recognition
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- Competing views/cultures see each other
- Recognize each other as valid
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Hegel’s Theory of History
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- Unfolding of geist in time, moving away from despotism
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First Conciousness
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- Start unconscious, gain self-concious when we see another
- First recognition that we exist
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Mirroring
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- Two selfs understand independence by studying each other
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Conciousness Difference
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- Two recognize their difference and emerge as unequal
- One tries to dominate the other
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Life and Death Struggle
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- Momen where two emerging conscious being recognize each other
- They fight, one would rather submit than die
- Locke justifies slavery this way
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Trial by Death
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- Validates distinction between two
- Duality emerges, one serves the stronger
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Master and Battle
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- Master wins
- Slave chooses subordination over death because it’s seen death
- Slave reps class that makes things for other
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Slave as Maker
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- Master recognizes the slave makes things he relies on
- Slave has a purpose and outlet for conscious
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Slave as Working Class
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- Slaves recognize themselves as dispensable
- Know master class can’t survive without them and their goods
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Reversal Between Classes
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- Slave has power because it makes the world
- Master does nothing, just dominate
- Slave must recognize power to realize freedom
- When slave claims power, master must recognize its purpose
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Master and No Equal
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- Lacks recognition becayse they have no equal to help them understand self
- Knows it’s reliant, unsure of self
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Overview
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- Ethical life where community is central political unity
- Individual and community are naturally reinforcing
