Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy Volume 2 (of 3)
- Language:
- English
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- Complete work
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- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 4 illegible passages, excluded from answers
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- ~180,000 words · 877 passages
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- APAHegel. (n.d.). Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy Volume 2 (of 3). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/hegel-s-lectures-on-the-history-of-philosophy-volume-2-of-3
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What it is about
The second volume: from Plato and Aristotle to the end of ancient thought and the passage into the Middle Ages.
Context and history
Remember where the text comes from: Hegel did not write these books. They are lectures given several times at Jena, Heidelberg and Berlin, which editors fused after his death into continuous prose out of his own notes and hearers' notebooks. The thesis is worth having even though the wording is not his: the history of philosophy is not a museum of mistaken opinions but a single piece of reasoning that takes centuries, and no system is cancelled by the next one but preserved inside it.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
THE development of philosophic science as science, and, further, the progress from the Socratic point of view to the scientific, begins with Plato and is completed by Aristotle. They of all others deserve to be called teachers of the human race. A. PLATO. Plato, who must be numbered among the Socratics, was the most renowned of the friends and disciples of Socrates, and he it was who grasped in all its truth Socrates’ great principle that ultimate reality lies in consciousness, since, according to him, the absolute is in thought, and all reality is Thought. He does not understand by this a one-sided thought, nor what is understood by the false idealism which makes thought once more step aside and contemplate itself as conscious thought, and as in opposition to reality; it is the thought which embraces in an absolute unity reality as well as thinking, the Notion and its reality in the movement of science, as the Idea of a scientific whole. While Socrates had comprehended the thought which is existent in and for itself, only as an object for self-conscious will, Plato forsook this narrow point of view, and brought the merely abstract right of self-conscious thought, which Socrates had raised to a principle, into the sphere of science. By so doing he rendered it possible to interpret and apply the principle, though his manner of representation may not be altogether scientific. Plato is one of those world-famed individuals, his philosophy one of those world-renowned creations, whose influence, as regards the culture and development of the mind, has from its commencement down to the present time been all-important. For what is peculiar in the philosophy of Plato is its application to the intellectual and supersensuous world, and its elevation of consciousness into the realm of spirit. Thus the spiritual element which belongs to thought obtains in this form an importance for consciousness, and is brought
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