Thoughts on Hegel 3
Cubey
Azazel
Now Hegel’s philosophy of mind is where I really enjoyed his work. He sees the infinite spirit (as he calls it) in its adolescent stages, follows its trajectory through logic and nature and now arrives at the point where it must know itself as the Absolute by the very outlook of all the finite spirits and their self-expressions through art, religion, philosophy and pretty much any interpretation of knowledge about the world. This is a really noble outlook… but it isn’t really anything new although hegel’s book did expound on the minutia of the concept - moksha. Essentially what Hegel is attempting to do is describe the origin of the Brahman (world-spirit) from Hinduism and elucidate the process by which it accepts the atman (individual spirit). This begs a question however. If the Brahman is the collective and the atman is the individual, what or who is the identity of the atman with which there will be moksha? In psychology, understanding and acceptance from another of a particular view is called osmosis.
The identity of the spirit whom Hegel is referring to is almost certainly Christ as Hegel was an outspoken Christian as well as a holistic philosopher.
Hegel makes constant mention of unity with this “absolute idealism” that [it now] has been dubbed. However I believe this is holism. It attempts to include every perspective. But then that raises another question. What about those spirits that have a disorderly mind and refuse to accept opposing viewpoints. Those can’t be resolved in my opinion.
Still this easily the high point of Hegel’s encyclopedia as, if you get to the heart of what he’s saying, he makes it clear that the Absolute [Mind] is greater than both the subjective and objective mind.
So this ends on a high note.
The identity of the spirit whom Hegel is referring to is almost certainly Christ as Hegel was an outspoken Christian as well as a holistic philosopher.
Hegel makes constant mention of unity with this “absolute idealism” that [it now] has been dubbed. However I believe this is holism. It attempts to include every perspective. But then that raises another question. What about those spirits that have a disorderly mind and refuse to accept opposing viewpoints. Those can’t be resolved in my opinion.
Still this easily the high point of Hegel’s encyclopedia as, if you get to the heart of what he’s saying, he makes it clear that the Absolute [Mind] is greater than both the subjective and objective mind.
So this ends on a high note.
