The Routledge Guide Book to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Robert Stern

Author:Robert Stern
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Philosophy, General
ISBN: 9780415664455
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15T21:17:57+00:00

Active Reason

Hegel continues his analysis of how Reason tries to make itself ‘at home in the world’ in this section and the next (entitled ‘The Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness Through Its Own Activity’ and ‘Individuality Which Takes Itself To Be Real In And For Itself’). In considering these sections, it is important to take into account the introductory preamble to the first of them (PS: §§348–59, pp. 211–17). Hegel makes clear here that the strategies he considers in the rest of this chapter are all ones that take as their starting point ‘modern’ assumptions about the individual and his place in the social world, and so should be contrastedwith the less individualist outlook of premodern (specifically Greek) accounts of what it means to be ‘at home in the world’. Only once these ‘modern’ standpoints have been shown to be inadequate will consciousness ‘turn back’ to see how this premodern outlook came to be lost (in the chapter on Spirit). Hegel’s characterization of the fundamental differences between the ancient and modern conceptions of the individual here is therefore vital to the rest of his discussion.

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