A PHILOSOPHICAL EXPOSITION OF THE HEGELIAN CONCEPT OF ‘SPIRIT’ WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF GERMAN IDEALISM
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Hegel’s phenomenology of the spirit was an eventful publication within the German idealism. The popularity of the ‘spirit’ came with Hegel’s publication of the philosophy of the spirit that featured in the third part of the Encyclopedia of philosophical sciences. Hegel has lots of influences dating back to the days of Enlightenment after the revolution staged by Napoleon. There was also the influence coming from many a German idealist, and even remotely from Aristotle. These influences greatly shaped his thoughts in the philosophy of the spirit. Thus the Hegelian system was out to unify human knowledge via the dialectical process. This informs his rejection of dualism and the Kantian ‘Thing in itself.’ Hegel is credited with the saying that ‘nature presupposes the spirit.’ The various stages of consciousness of the spirit in its manifestations of the objective, subjective and absolute spirit are often seen as substituting for the Trinitarian God of Christians. Hence the Hegelian concept of the spirit is an enigma worth investigating. Therefore the objective of this article is to throw some light on Hegel’s meaning of the concept of the ‘spirit’ by placing his idealism against the background of German Idealism.
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