{"id":2904,"date":"2014-10-09T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T06:23:53","slug":"notes-on-hegel-pos-c-aa-v-the-certainty-and-truth-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/10\/09\/notes-on-hegel-pos-c-aa-v-the-certainty-and-truth-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Hegel “PoS” C.AA.V. ‘The certainty and truth of reason’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nb. this is on the bit starting C.AA.V(231), but before it begins C.AA.V.A (nb. noted below)<\/p>\n

[231] “But in 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

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This allows *us* to unify them, as Reason.<\/p>\n

[232] Reason relates to actuality via mode of idealism; to it the world or its own appearance are both assuredly within its thoughts, so it is not worried about independence or freedom.<\/p>\n

H seems to be resetting. Saying that Reason is a new history. As if what it has overcome to become R, means that it has cancelled\/appropriated it:<\/p>\n

“it discovers\u00a0the world as its new real world”<\/p>\n

“In thus\u00a0apprehending itself, after losing the grave of its truth, after the\u00a0abolition of its actuality is itself abolished, and after the singleness\u00a0of consciousness is for it in itself Absolute Essence, it discovers\u00a0the world as its new real world, which in its permanence\u00a0holds an interest for it which previously lay only in its transiency\u00a0; for the existence of the world becomes for self-consciousness\u00a0its own truth and presence; it is certain of experiencing only\u00a0itself therein.”<\/p>\n

[233] “Reason is the certainty of consciousness that it is all\u00a0reality; thus does idealism express its Notion.”<\/p>\n

“idealism’ give direct expression to that certainty: ‘I am I’, in the sense that the ‘ I ‘ which is an object for me is the sole object, is all reality and all that is present.”<\/p>\n

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There is no more ‘other’ in the sense of having an intrinsic being separate to s.c.<\/p>\n

“The consciousness which is this truth has this path behind it\u00a0and has forgotten it, and comes on the scene immediately as\u00a0Reason; in other words, this Reason which comes immediately\u00a0on the scene appears only as the certainty of that truth. Thus\u00a0it merely asserts that it is all reality, but does not itself comprehend\u00a0this; for it is along that forgotten path that this\u00a0immediately expressed assertion is comprehended.”<\/p>\n

Not clear to me what it must be forgotten. But the conclusion means that this is a pre-conscious belief, i.e. without justification (e.g. the narrative of the PoS up to this point).<\/p>\n

[234] This shape of c. is native to itself, born anew, and thus must face the shapes of c. that came previously, e.g. perception, uhc<\/p>\n

[235-6] Previously category was the essential of the existent, but now it is the essence of the unity of s.c. and thing\/that-which-has-being. There appears however a multiplicity of categories, as sub categories (per H’s use of the word). There result different moments, such as realizing that the multiple sub-cats are aspect of the simple cat, and thence that individual subsumes these differences into a grander unity.<\/p>\n

Thus, C, is these moments, moving back an forth…<\/p>\n

[237] “Consciousness, however, as essence\u00a0is this whole process itself, of passing out of itself as simple category\u00a0into a singular individual, into the object, and of contemplating<\/div>\n

this process in the object, nullifying the object as\u00a0distinct (from it), appropriating it as its own, and proclaiming\u00a0itself as this certainty of being all reality, of being both itself\u00a0and its object.”<\/p>\n

[238] “Its first declaration is only this abstract empty phrase\u00a0that everything is its own. For the certainty of being all reality\u00a0is at first [only] the pure category. This Reason which first\u00a0recognizes itself in the object finds expression in the empty\u00a0idealism which grasps Reason only as it first comes on the\u00a0scene; and fancies that by pointing out this pure ‘mine’ of consciousness\u00a0in all being, and by declaring all things to be sensations\u00a0or ideas, it has demonstrated this ‘ mine’ of consciousness\u00a0to be complete reality. It is bound, therefore, to be at the same\u00a0time absolute empiricism, for in order to give filling to the\u00a0empty ‘ mine’, i.e. to get hold of difference with all its developed\u00a0formations, its Reason requires an extraneous impulse, in which\u00a0first is to be found the multiplicity of sensations and ideas.\u00a0This\u00a0idealism, therefore, becomes the same kind of self-contradictory<\/div>\n

ambiguity as Scepticism, except that, while this expresses itself\u00a0negatively, the former does so positively”<\/p>\n

“It is involved in a direct contradiction; it asserts\u00a0essence to be a duality of opposed factors, the unity of apperception\u00a0and equally a Thing; whether the Thing is called an extraneous\u00a0impulse, or an empirical or sensuous entity, or the Thing-in itself,\u00a0it still remains in principle the same, i.e. extraneous to\u00a0that unity.”<\/p>\n

[239] Reason: “being at first only\u00a0the certainty that it is all reality, it is aware in this Notion that\u00a0qua certainty, qua ‘I’, it is not yet in truth reality, and it is\u00a0impelled to raise its certainty to truth and to give filling to the\u00a0empty ‘ mine’ .”<\/p>\n

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C.AA.V.A(240) “OBSERVING REASON”<\/div>\n

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[240] “Reason sets to work\u00a0to \/know\/ the truth, to find in the form of a Notion that which,\u00a0for ‘ meaning’ and ‘ perceiving’, is a Thing; i .e. it seeks to possess\u00a0in thinghood the consciousness only of itself. Reason now has, \/therefore\/, a universal interest in the world, because it is certain\u00a0of its presence in the world, or that the world present to it is<\/div>\n

rational. It seeks its ‘other’, knowing that therein it possesses\u00a0nothing else but itself: it seeks only its own infinitude.”<\/p>\n

[241] It seeks itself in the world, planting its flags, and opening entrails, but it will always come up short until it has “completed itself internally”.<\/p>\n

[242] It says that it wants to understand the world, but it actually is seeking itself, as is proved by the fact that in exploring the sensuous world it analyzes it via its own terms, as concepts.<\/p>\n

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C.AA.V.A.a(244) “OBSERVATION OF NATURE”<\/div>\n

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Per the notion of reason it follows that the artificial system (of the scientist) should confirm\/conform with nature’s.<\/p>\n

Describes the scientific method, cataloging and ascribing categories and genre. But then it has a problem:<\/p>\n

“So it is that observation which clings\u00a0to passive, unbroken selfsameness of being, inevitably sees itself\u00a0tormented just in its most general determinations-e.g. of what\u00a0are the differentiae of an animal or a plant-by instances which\u00a0rob it of every determination, invalidate the universality to\u00a0which it had risen, and reduce it to an observation and description\u00a0which is devoid of thought.” [247]\n

Problem for observation separating determinateness with universality. At their borders, they meet.<\/p>\n

This leads it to seek the laws (viz. that are responsible of the determinateness of an observation).<\/p>\n

p147<\/p>\n

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Next sub sub sub sections are at b:298, c:309<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nb. this is on the bit starting C.AA.V(231), but before it begins C.AA.V.A (nb. noted below) [231] “But in 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 […]<\/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":[159,198,302,242,18,20],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-book-review","category-classicalphilosophers","category-evernote-entries","category-hegel","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":182,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/10\/12\/reading-hegel-part-6-introducing-reason\/","url_meta":{"origin":2904,"position":0},"title":"Reading Hegel [part 6] Introducing “Reason”","author":"Pala","date":"October 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, consciousness evolves into \"Reason\" - a mode of thought that considers everything that is, including itself, to be determined by rationality. 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