Closereads: Hegel’s “Unhappy Consciousness”

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get previous and future installments of this podcast. We're within the Self-Consciousness chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically starting at sec. 206 on the Unhappy Consciousness. This comes after the famous Master-Slave section as well as sections about Stoicism and Skepticism, and it depicts a dividedness within the self stemming from a faulty view of the relation between self and world. The post Closereads: Hegel’s “Unhappy Consciousness” first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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