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Essays and threads on Hegelian philosophy.

Phenomenology of Spirit: from consciousness to absolute knowing
Overview of the journey of consciousness in the Phenomenology: from sense-certainty through self-consciousness and spirit to absolute knowing, as the necessary path to true knowledge.
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The master–slave dialectic and the struggle for recognition
The life-and-death struggle, the emergence of master and slave, and why the slave's labour and fear of death prepare the way for genuine freedom and recognition.
Feb 191 min read
Aufhebung: sublation and the labour of the concept
What Aufhebung means: to cancel and to preserve at once, and how this movement structures the development of the concept in Hegel's system.

Feb 191 min read

Alienation and reconciliation

How alienation and reconciliation structure the Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Right: spirit's self-externalisation and return to itself.

Feb 191 min read

The Logic: being, essence, concept

The three parts of Hegel's Logic—being, essence, concept—and how the categories develop through immanent necessity rather than external application.

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The concrete universal

Why Hegel's universal is concrete: it includes particularity and individuality within itself, and how this distinguishes speculative thought from abstract reflection.

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Philosophy of Right: freedom in the state

The structure of the Philosophy of Right: abstract right, morality, ethical life (family, civil society, state), and the idea of freedom actualised in institutions.

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Absolute knowing and the end of the Phenomenology

What absolute knowing is: the end of the Phenomenology where consciousness and object coincide, and the transition to the Logic and the system.

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The dialectic and determinate negation

Hegel's concept of determinate negation in the Logic: negation that preserves and elevates rather than merely cancels, and how it drives the movement of the concept.

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Spirit and history: the cunning of reason

How spirit realises itself in history, the role of the "cunning of reason," and the relation between individual action and universal purpose in Hegel's philosophy of history.

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