Abstrakt
Is there a world in G. W.
F. Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit? This is the central question the thesis I aim to address.
Both scholars and philosophers alike tend to consider Hegel a thinker who, having formulated the philosophy of absolute spirit, has surrendered the world. Despite this suspicion, the consciousness finds itself at nearly every level of Hegel's oeuvre in a place called "the world".
At every stage, the world changes its shape - along with the conscious-ness - but its function seems to remain the same. The world is a conception of totality; thus, the world is an object of the consciousness that, by definition, surpasses the consciousness and thus reveals its limits.
In the monograph, the author seeks to systematically analyze the different shapes of the world Hegel's presents. Neither is the world surrendered at the level of the absolute knowledge.
Instead, having arrived at this level, such a consciousness realizes that being is constituted by the same structures as the spiritual consciousness itself. As consciousness reaches this knowledge, it no longer wants to interfere with the world, but recognizes it as an accomplished world, of which it is a part