A reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

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1 Introduction 1.1 Hegel's Language 1.2 Summary of the Whole Hegel's Introduction Sense Certainty Perception Force and Understanding Self-Consciousness Reason Spirit Religion Absolute Knowing Preface 2 Hegel's Introduction 2.1 Reality and Appearance 2.2 Consciousness as Process 3 Sense Certainty 3.1 The Function of Negation 3.2 Empirical Immediacy 4 Perception 4.1 Perception and Reflection 4.2 Perception vs. Reception 5 Force and Understanding 5.1 The Contribution of Consciousness 5.2 Critique of Scientific Understanding 6 Self-Consciousness The Life of Consciousness and the World Come Alive Self-Consciousness as Process 6.1 A. Domination and Servitude [Dependence and Independence] 6.2 B. Freedom of Self-Consciousness 6.2.1 a. Stoicism 6.2.2 b. Skepticism 6.2.3 c. The Unhappy Consciousness 7 Reason 7.1 A. Reason Observing 7.1.1 a. Observation of Nature 7.1.2 b. Observing Human Nature 7.1.3 c. Observing the Immediate Expression of the Interior 7.2 The Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness 7.2.1 a. Pleasure and Necessity 7.2.2 b. The Law of the Heart and the Insanity of Self-Conceit 7.2.3 c. Virtue and the Course of Events 7.3 C. Individuality Which is Real in and for Itself 7.3.1 a. The Realm of Spiritual Animals 7.3.2 b. Legislative Reason 7.3.3 c. Reason as Judge of Laws 8 Spirit 8.1 A. True Spirit The Norm of Immemorial Custom 8.1.1 a. The World Regulated by Custom 8.1.2 b. Behavior Regulated by Custom Human 8.1.3 c. Legal Status 8.2 B. Self-Alienated Spirit Culture 8.2.1 I. The World of the Self-Alienated Spirit a. Culture and Its Realm of Actuality b. Belief and Pure Insight 8.2.2 II. Enlightenment a. Enlightenment's Struggle Against Superstition b. The Truth of Enlightenment 8.2.3 III. Absolute Freedom and the Terror 8.3 C. Spirit Certain of Itself Morality 8.3.1 a. The Moral World-View 8.3.2 b. Dissimulation 8.3.3 c. Conscience Beautiful Soul Evil and Forgiveness [The Beautiful Soul] [Evil and Its Forgiveness] 9 Religion 9.1 A. Religion of Nature 9.1.1 a. God as Light 9.1.2 b. Plant and Animal 9.1.3 c. The Artisan 9.2 B. Religion of Art 9.2.1 a. The Abstract Work of Art 9.2.2 b. The Living Work of Art 9.2.3 c. The Spiritual Work of Art 9.3 C. The Religion of Revelation 9.3.1 [Recapitulation] 10 Absolute Knowing 10.1 [Dynamic Unity of Consciousness] 10.2 [Self-Consciousness as Consciousness of the Divine] 10.3 [Concept and Being] 11 Preface 11.1 [The Absolute as Subject] 11.2 [The Unity of Consciousness and Self-Consciousness] 11.3 [The Nature of Philosophical Truth] 11.4 [Analysis and Synthesis] 12 Bibliography of Works Cited