Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit (Perception, sec. 114-116)

In this forty-sixth video in the new series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, I read and comment on paragraphs 114, 115, and 116 of the text, continuing our study of the second portion of the section "Consciousness," i.e "Perception: Or the Thing and Deception".

In these sections Hegel turns the focus on the properties of the Thing, i.e. the object of perception, unfolding the implications of their determinacy. These properties are determinate not only as "sensuous universals", but also by opposing themselves to the other properties, both within the Thing and in other Things.

This leads to more fully understanding what it is to be a Thing perceived -- it is not simply a medium in which the properties can coexist together, an Also, but rather a One, a unity that excludes its other. After having set out these developments, Hegel then turns to the relation between the perceiving subject and the object of perception. Truth here lies on the side of the object, and is conceived of as self-sameness or self-identity, and any difference from this on the side of the subject then becomes untruth, or deception.

In this video series, I will be working through the entire Phenomenology, paragraph by paragraph -- for each one, first reading the paragraph, and then commenting on what Hegel is doing, referencing, discussing, etc. in that paragraph.

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[andrewcarteducation]

Your work is brilliant, you have enabled me to get this far, reading the book, which i know would have been closed otherwise. I'm not saying i understand it all, no way, but what you have done is provide something whereby, if people take the time, they can engage with Hegel's incredible work which is going to be life long.

[GregoryBSadler]

The second video in this section, "Perception, " of Hegel's Phenomenology -- here discussing the Thing and its properties as grasped in Perception, than raising the problem of deception in a preliminary manner

[SequinBrain]

The gist probably won't change, but so far, I enjoy how this encourages us, not to do what we are taught most of the time, to immediately assume we understand everything about what we're looking at, but to realize the opposite, that we don't.

[eatsbugs]

Perhaps it's the way I'm reading the text, but I'm really fighting to not see these different sections as some sort of temporal sequence, especially 114-115. If Now is not Now for Time and Space reasons, then it almost feels like the way we are coming to the Thing is a sequence. I'm sure I'm overthinking it, but I want to make sure that I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Thoughts? And thank you!

[lyndonbailey]

In what manner does the whiteness of one piece of chalk 'diffrentiate' itself from the whiteness of another piece of chalk other than that that other piece of chalk is another instantiation of the whiteness universal? It is easier to imagine the whiteness of the chalk differentiating itself from the blueness of a car

[nateaasland]

Isn't it kind of ironic that Hegel says ' consciousness adding or subtracting anything would alter the truth' whereas in the introduction he mentioned that if you take away the work that consciousness did on the object, in shaping it, you don't get the pure object, but the same incomprehensibility ( i was thinking of using the word nothing but figured it wasn't fully appropriate ) that you had before applying the tool that is consciousness ?

[EsjjiobaCommunism]

love the way it ends. I am kicking smokes right now and this is way head spec. hard ball, invisible.

[ethanselkowitz]

This guy reminds me of The Dude. Just the sort of hippie way he speaks sounds like Jeff Bridges.

[shonesanchez]

( 114 ) Or, in other words: " Common passed on this beat, I made it to a jam *Now everything I'm not made me everything I am* Damn, here we go again" - Kanye West

[lyndonbailey]

I have a horrible feeling that this would be easier to begriff if I had put the legwork into studying Kant properly

[lukemccrae]

This sounds a lot like Freud, where the latent dream content in the unconscious is brought into consciousness by the censor/dream work