PREMIUM-Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Continuing on the Introduction, we get into more detail on Hegel's goal and his tricky terminology.

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0:00.0	The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Part 1 episodes are designed to be self-contained,
0:12.8	fully satisfying experiences in themselves.
0:15.6	But for hardcore philosophy fans, we record for another hour or so to release behind
0:19.9	our various paywalls to folks that pitch in to help us make this show.
0:24.1	What you're about to hear is a preview of one of these Part 2 episodes, we hope you
0:27.7	enjoy it.
0:28.7	Hey, this is the Partially Examined Life Episode 275 Part 2.
0:32.8	We've been discussing the introduction of Hagel's phenomenology of spirit.
0:35.9	I think we gave a pretty nice overview of the overall method.
0:40.5	We were up to section 81.
0:42.8	He's going to tell us what our goal is.
0:46.4	He wants to investigate and examine the quote unquote, reality of cognition.
0:52.4	Or the other way he puts it is, this exposition is viewed as a way of relating science
0:58.1	to phenomenal knowledge.
1:01.0	It's going to become clear as this unfolds that the question really amounts to how do we
1:06.2	know things in themselves or the absolute or how do we have metaphysical knowledge if
1:11.7	we think we're limited to the phenomena.
1:14.6	And of course, his way out is going to be to treat the epistemological theories themselves
1:18.7	as the phenomena.
1:20.0	But he's going to start here by talking about the way that we usually proceed, which is
1:25.0	to say, all right, well, we need a criterion.
1:27.4	We're going to be judging these different theories.
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