{"id":2902,"date":"2014-10-07T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T06:23:54","slug":"notes-on-hegel-pos-unhappy-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/10\/07\/notes-on-hegel-pos-unhappy-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Hegel “PoS” Unhappy Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

[207\/42] Stb: The UC is *like* a spirt, in that it contains two parts, and also their unity. But it is not aware of this, and so experiences itself as both, then as one when it identifies itself as both, but thus returns again. The “two” I’m referring to are self as immutable and self as mutable (via the duplication, as #206 calls it, of skepticism).<\/p>\n

[208] Returning movements: It sees the two parts as essential\/immutable vs unessential. But first sees itself as unessential since it is aware of the contradiction, but then as the unchanging awareness becomes associated to the essential, and tries to rid itself of the unessential but that would mean being free of itself, since its essence is to contain both of them. Thus:<\/p>\n

“merely the contradictory\u00a0movement in which one opposite does not come to rest\u00a0in its opposite, but in it only produces itself afresh as an\u00a0opposite” -M<\/div>\n
aka:<\/div>\n

“But inasmuch as the two are equally essential to the\u00a0Unhappy Consciousness and are mutually contradictory, that consciousness\u00a0is merely the contradictory movement in which the opposite does not\u00a0come to rest in its opposite, but only generates itself anew in it as an opposite.” -R<\/p>\n

[209] {Another description and demonstration of this contradictory movement} Thinking about life is to see that it is the unessential, and then moving to see it via the changeless is consequentially to realize that it is a changeless of an individuality. {Which is significant because, …next #}<\/div>\n

– This doesn’t seem to defy the individual, and what was called by H the unessential\/changing, is not called the “individual consciousness”, which seems to be narrowing the gap btw the dichotomy that started this chapter.<\/p>\n

[210] Thus the changeless becomes linked to individuality. But (the narrator? says) there are 3 ways for this association: (1) if the changeless emerges, thus resetting the contradictory movements, (2) when c perceives individuality in the changeless {as happened #209}, and (3) when c “finds itself as this individual in the element of the changeless”. Conclude: (1) is nothing, as the changless is still alien to the c and is the judge of it, (2) shows changless qua form of individuality, and (3) this allows this to occur via spirit.<\/p>\n

[211] What is happening here is: the unchangable is (1) seeing individuality and becoming it, (2) thus seeing in its other yet another individual, and (3) becoming united with the other individual.<\/div>\n

– And then H says, this is all premature, something to do with this being an unchangeable, not per se, but of c.<\/p>\n

———————<\/p>\n

Q[212\/47] “Through the nature of the existing One, through the actuality it has\u00a0acquired, it necessarily happens that it has vanished in time, and having\u00a0been remote in space it simply remains remote.”<\/p>\n

IS THIS WHAT TAYLOR MEANT when he spoke about the crusades!!!????<\/p>\n

[49] seems to be indicating the trinity..<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Rauch notes in the commentary:<\/div>\n

“So when we say that a cultural phenomenon, such as\u00a0religion, is the outward projection of individual psychic elements, what we\u00a0mean is that we must regard culture as the epiphenomenon of consciousness,\u00a0in the dialectical clash between its component essences (not forces) .”<\/p>\n

“Unable to grasp itself in any conclusive\u00a0manner, the Unhappy Consciousness finds a way of saying what it\u00a0must on another plane-religion.”<\/p>\n

—–<\/div>\n
God’s dogs and Hegel’s unhappy consciousness<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
.I want to be a dog<\/div>\n
.It is the happiest organism, perfectly in tune with its entire being<\/div>\n
.So we want to be domesticated creatures<\/div>\n
.Perhaps that’s what God gives us: an idea of a master who makes the world and who can tell us “good dog”<\/div>\n
.Absurdity is that we punish ourselves on His best too<\/div>\n
.Even science is a master, an external truth against which we may be judged<\/div>\n

.Enter scene: Hegel’s uhc<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

“229 . Through these moments of surrender, first of its right\u00a0to decide for itself, then of its property and enjoyment, and finally\u00a0through the positive moment of practising what it does not\u00a0understand, it truly and completely deprives itself of the consciousness\u00a0of inner and outer freedom, of the actuality in which\u00a0consciousness exists for itself. It has the certainty of having truly\u00a0divested itself of its ‘\/’, and of having turned its immediate self-consciousness\u00a0into a Thing, into an objective existence.”<\/p>\n

230 “For the surrender of one’s own will is only\u00a0from one aspect negative; in principle, however, or in itself,\u00a0it is at the same time positive, viz. the positing of will as the\u00a0will of an ‘other’, and specifically of will, not as a particular,\u00a0but as a universal will.”<\/p>\n

230 LL “But\u00a0in this object, in which it finds that its own action and being,\u00a0as being that of this particular consciousness, are being and\u00a0action in themselves, there has arisen for consciousness the idea\u00a0of Reason, of the certainty that, in its particular individuality,\u00a0it has being absolutely in itself, or is all reality.”<\/p>\n

i.e. by fulfilling the laws per the minister, it has seen that both its being and its actions are in harmony with the essential immutable. And this is like reason.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[207\/42] Stb: The UC is *like* a spirt, in that it contains two parts, and also their unity. But it is not aware of this, and so experiences itself as both, then as one when it identifies itself as both, but thus returns again. 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