{"id":2886,"date":"2014-10-07T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T06:23:54","slug":"hegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/10\/07\/hegel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Born 1770 Stuttgart<\/li>\n<li>Cf. 1789 fall of Bastille<\/li>\n<li>Cf. 1806\u00a0Napoleon&#8217;s\u00a0Battle of Jena<\/li>\n<li>Cf. French dominion over Germany (1806-1814) included substantial reform (incl. abolishment of serfdom, proto-revolutionary attempts)<\/li>\n<li>1799\u00a0inheritance\u00a0(father&#8217;s death) allowed him to stop being a family-tutor and join the University of Jena, where previously Fichte and Schilling had been, and Schelling was\n<ul>\n<li>Schelling was becoming famous, but when Hegel eclipsed him, he would claim that he had stolen his ideas. He had first met Schelling at a seminary (via scholarship) he attended after finishing school. The two fell out when Schelling read the introduction of PoM as a polemic against his ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Phenomenology of Mind<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; motived to write by a dwindling inheritance, but the contract for writing contained a heavy penalty for late production; finished on the day Napoleon invaded Jena, and in a rush Hegel had to send his only manuscript off via courier despite worries that it could be lost (13 October 1806, published 1807).<\/li>\n<li>Jena&#8217;s occupation disrupted his academic life. He left for other jobs, including newspaper editor, and for nine years a headmaster in Nuremberg, where he had an illegitimate son with his landlady, and married (a daughter of an important family).\n<ul>\n<li>During these years published three volumes of <em>Science of Logic<\/em> (1812, 1813, 1816).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reputation led him to professorship at University of Heidelberg where he wrote <em>Encyclopedia of Logic<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing reputation led him to chair at University of Berlin (1818 until death 1831).\n<ul>\n<li>Wrote <em>Philosophy of Right<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perspective: H&#8217;s P&#8217;s development of ideas parallels the development of history, and the latter is proof of the former.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Q] The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom [PoR]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blurb of <em>Philosophy of History<\/em>: Goes through history &#8211; Orient, Greek states, Roman rule, Christianity, Reformation, Germanic world &#8211; describing the freedom of consciousness had by the people of each epoch, and how that freedom invariably progresses. That list of epoch is roughly described in terms of: only dictator is free, all other&#8217;s controlled; some have individual freedom; this freedom is contrasted by state control, thus birth of introverted philosophies; \u00a0realization of spiritual dimension for freedom; individuals become masters of their own spirituality; society becomes rational, thus allowing &#8220;objective freedom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Popper accuses H of serving his employer &#8211; Frederick William of Prussia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Phenomenology<\/em>\u00a0is necessary as a preface to the <em>History<\/em>\u00a0because it answers the question, &#8220;Why is the history of the world nothing but the progress of the consciousness of freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nb. Springer&#8217;s argument for translating Geist as <em>mind<\/em>, given the likelihood that H is contributing to the\u00a0dialog\u00a0since Descartes, regarding the questions surrounding &#8220;What is mind&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Study of how mind appears to <em>itself<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life: Born 1770 Stuttgart Cf. 1789 fall of Bastille Cf. 1806\u00a0Napoleon&#8217;s\u00a0Battle of Jena Cf. French dominion over Germany (1806-1814) included substantial reform (incl. abolishment of serfdom, proto-revolutionary attempts) 1799\u00a0inheritance\u00a0(father&#8217;s death) allowed him to stop being a family-tutor and join the University of Jena, where previously Fichte and Schilling had been, and Schelling was Schelling was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,302,242,18,20],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-classicalphilosophers","category-evernote-entries","category-hegel","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/09\/21\/contextualizing-hegels-philosophy\/","url_meta":{"origin":2886,"position":0},"title":"Contextualizing Hegel&#8217;s Philosophy","author":"Pala","date":"September 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Experiencing\u00a0the history of philosophy Reading \"Hegel\" by Charles Taylor, about the ideas, beliefs, opinions and motivations that flowed and ebbed in western Europe between the time of the Enlightenment and Hegel's philosophical career. 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