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Hegel: Force and Understanding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
Extract
‘Force and Understanding’ is the title, or part of the title, of the third section of Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes, his ‘phenomenology of spirit’. That was his first book; it was published in 1807 as Volume One of his System of Science. A second volume, he announced, would contain ‘the system of Logic as speculative philosophy, and of the other two parts of philosophy, the sciences of Nature and Spirit’. But no such volume appeared: although in 1812 his Science of Logic was published as ‘the first sequel to the Phenomenology of Spirit in an expanded arrangement of the system’, Hegel added to the 1831 edition a note explaining that since then he had brought out his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences ‘in place of the projected second part’.
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- Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 5: Reason and Reality , March 1971 , pp. 163 - 173
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- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1971
References
page 164 note 1 Phänomenologie des Geistes (Stuttgart, 1927) p. 80.Google Scholar All translations from this work are mine.
page 165 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Smith, N. Kemp (London, 1953), p.41.Google Scholar
page 166 note 1 Phänomenologie, p. 75.Google Scholar
page 166 note 2 Ibid., p. 76.
page 167 note 1 Ibid., p. 78.
page 167 note 2 Cf. pp. 228–31, vol. II of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Yolton, J. W. (London, 1967)Google Scholar: ‘The notice we have by our senses of the existing of things without us … is an assurance that deserves the name of knowledge … The certainty of things existing in rerum natura, when we have the testimony of our senses for it, is not only as great as our frame can attain to, but as our condition needs.’
page 167 note 3 Phänomenologie, p. 92.Google Scholar
page 168 note 1 Phänomenologie, p. 92.Google Scholar
page 168 note 2 Ibid., p. 92.
page 172 note 1 Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, trans. Miller, A. V. (Oxford, 1970) p. 6.Google Scholar