The Phenomenology of Spirit in the context of "Master–slave dialectic"

⭐ In the context of the master–slave dialectic, *The Phenomenology of Spirit* suggests that the lord’s attempt to achieve self-consciousness through domination ultimately fails because…

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⭐ Core Definition: The Phenomenology of Spirit

The Phenomenology of Spirit (or The Phenomenology of Mind; German: Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the first published book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel described the 1807 work, a ladder to the greater philosophical system of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, as an "exposition of the coming-to-be of knowledge". This development traced through the logical self-origination and dissolution of "the various shapes of spirit as stations on the way through which spirit becomes pure knowledge".

The text marks a development in German idealism. Focusing on topics in consciousness, metaphysics, ethics, and religion, it is where Hegel develops well-known concepts and methods such as speculative philosophy, the dialectic, the movement of immanent critique, absolute idealism, Sittlichkeit, and Aufhebung. It continues to influence Western philosophy, and "has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology, and historicist nihilism".

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👉 The Phenomenology of Spirit in the context of Master–slave dialectic

The lord–bondsman dialectic (German: Herrschaft und Knechtschaft; also translated master–servant dialectic) is a famous passage in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit. It is widely considered a key element in Hegel's philosophical system, and it has heavily influenced many subsequent philosophers.

The passage describes, in narrative form, the development of self-consciousness as such in an encounter between what are thereby (i.e., emerging only from this encounter) two distinct, self-conscious beings. The essence of the dialectic is the movement or motion of recognizing, in which the two self-consciousnesses are constituted in each being recognized as self-conscious by the other. This movement, inexorably taken to its extreme, takes the form of a "struggle to the death" in which one masters [beherrscht] the other, only to find that such lordship makes the very recognition he had sought impossible, since the bondsman, in this state, is not free to offer it.

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The Phenomenology of Spirit in the context of Volksgeist

Geist (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaɪst] ) is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: ghost (as in the supernatural entity), spirit (as in the Holy Spirit), and mind or intellect. Some English translators resort to using "spirit/mind" or "spirit (mind)" to help convey the meaning of the term.

Geist is also a central concept in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 1807 The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes). Notable compounds, all associated with Hegel's view of world history of the late 18th century, include Weltgeist (German: [ˈvɛltˌɡaɪ̯st] , "world-spirit"), Volksgeist ("national spirit") and Zeitgeist ("spirit of the age").

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The Phenomenology of Spirit in the context of Jean Hyppolite

Jean Hyppolite (French: [ʒɑ̃ ipɔlit]; 8 January 1907 – 26 October 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of G. W. F. Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers. His major works include Genèse et structure de la Phénoménologie de l'esprit de Hegel (1946) and Études sur Marx et Hegel (1955) and the first translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit into French in 1939.

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← Master–slave dialectic ← Volksgeist ← Geist ← Jean Hyppolite ← Weltgeist ← Volksseele
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German language → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel → Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline → German idealism → Consciousness → Metaphysics → Ethics → Philosophy of religion → Speculative philosophy → Dialectic → Absolute idealism → Sittlichkeit → Aufheben → Western philosophy → Existentialism → Communism → Fascism → Death of God theology → Historicist → Nihilism →