Hegel: A Re-Examination

, by Findlay, J N

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ISBN: 9780415295789 | 0415295785
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Reissue from the classic Muirhead Library of Philosophy series (originally published between 1890s - 1970s).

FOREWORD

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL

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i. Hegel and Modern Preconceptions

ii. Hegel's Life and Writings

CHAPTER TWO: THE NOTION OF SPIRIT

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i. What Hegel says about 'Spirit'

ii. What Hegel means by 'Spirit'

iii. Historical Roots of the Conception of Spirit

iv. Mitigation of Objections to the Concept of Spirit

CHAPTER THREE: THE DIALECTICAL METHOD

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i. What Hegel says about Dialectic and its relations to Understanding and Speculative Reason

ii. How Hegel actually uses his Dialectic

iii. Mitigation of Objections to Hegel's Dialectic

CHAPTER FOUR: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT- I

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(Consciousness, Self-consciousness and Reason)

i. The Preface and Introduction to the Phenomenology

ii. Sense-Certainty, Perception and Scientific Understanding

iii. Social Self-consciousness: Mastership and Slavery, Stoicism, Scepticism and Unhappy Other-Worldliness

iv. The Observational Study of Nature and Mind

v. The Pursuit of Happiness, the Law of the Heart, Moral Idealism, Dedication to Causes, Moral Legislation, Moral Criticism

CHAPTER FIVE: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT - II

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(Spirit, Religion and Absolute Knowledge)

i. Unreflective Ethical Life

ii. The 'self-estranged' Life of Culture

iii. Religious Faith and 'Enlightenment'

iv. Personal Morality and Conscientiousness

v. Religion in general

vi. Pre-Christian Religion

vii. Absolute or Revealed Religion (Christianity)

viii. Absolute or Philosophical Knowledge

CHAPTER SIX: THE LOGIC - I. The Doctrine of Being page

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i. Hegel's general view of Logic

ii. Being, Nothing and Becoming

iii. Determinate Being, the Bad and Good Infinites, Being-for-Self

iv. Quantity, Number and Quantitative Infinity

v. Quantitative Ratio and Measure

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE LOGIC - II. The Doctrine of Essence

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i. Hegel's treatment of Positedness' and 'Reflection'

ii. Identity, Difference, Likeness, Opposition and Contradiction

iii. Grounds, Reasons and Conditions

iv. Phenomenal Things, Matters, Properties and Laws: Wholes and Parts, Forces and Manifestations, Insides and Outsides

v. The Actual, the Possible, the Contingent and the Necessary

vi. Substance, Cause and Reciprocal Interaction

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE LOGIC - III. The Doctrine of the Notion

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i. The Notion and its 'Moments'; Universality, Specificity and Individuality

ii. The Judgement and its Varieties

iii. The Syllogism and its Varieties

iv. Categories of Objectivity: Mechanism, Chemism and Teleology

v. The Idea in its Immediacy (Life)

vi. The Idea as Knowledge

vii. The Idea as Practical Activity

viii. The Absolute Idea

CHAPTER NINE: THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

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i. The notion of a Naturphilosophie

ii. Philosophical Mechanics: Space, Time, Matter, Motion, Gravity

iii. Philosophical Physics: the Elements, Cohesion, Sound, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Chemical Action, etc.

iv. Organics: Philosophical Geology, Botany and Zoology

CHAPTER TEN: THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT

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(Hegel's Psychology)

i. Definition and emergence of Subjective Spirit

ii. 'Soul', or Spirit sunk in Nature (Anthropology)

iii. Phenomenology: the Study of Consciousness

iv. Psychology: the Study of Theoretical, Practical and Free Mind

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PHILOSOPHY OF OBJECTIVE SPIRIT

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(Hegel's Theory of Law, Morals, the State and History)

i. Formal Right: the Philosophical Bases of Law

ii. Personal Morality and its Perplexities

iii. Customary Morality: The Family and Civil Society

iv. Theory of the State and States

v. The Philosophy of History

CHAPTER TWELVE: ABSOLUTE SPIRIT AND RETROSPECT

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(Hegel's Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion and History of Philosophy)

i. Transition to Absolute Spirit

ii. The Immediate Form of Absolute Spirit: Art

iii. The Representational-Feeling Form of Absolute Spirit: Religion

iv. The Thinking Form of Absolute Spirit: Philosophy and its History

v. Appraisal of Hegel as Anti-metaphysician, Empiricist, Idealist and Dialectician

APPENDIX: THE DIALECTICAL STRUCTURE OF HEGEL'S MAIN WORKS

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INDEX

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