Part of thread: Phenomenology of Spirit: from consciousness to absolute knowing
Sense-certainty and the failure of the immediate
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Sense-certainty wants to say "this," "here," "now"—the immediate. But as soon as we say it, we have mediated it; we have turned it into a universal. "Now" is day; then it is night; "now" has preserved itself by becoming a universal. The immediate cannot be spoken without ceasing to be immediate. That is the first lesson of the Phenomenology.
Averrois
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
Thread
- The "we" and the natural consciousness/u/averrois
On the role of the "we" as observer and how it relates to the natural consciousness in the Phenomenology.
- Sense-certainty and the failure of the immediate/u/averrois
Why sense-certainty fails: the immediate cannot be expressed without mediation, and what that teaches about the path of consciousness.