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In this forty-fourth video in the new series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, I read and comment on paragraphs 109 and 110 of the text, finishing our study of the first portion of the section "Consciousness," i.e "Sense Certainty".
We have learned now through the dialectical investigation into what sense certainty is that it does not possess immediacy, but rather involves a whole complex of mediations that have progressively come to light, ultimately highlighting the role of the universal. Turning to the practical sphere, we find that the objects of sense-certainty did not provide us with the truth or the essence we originally sought, but rather sensuous things exhibit their own nothingness.
In trying to speak about singular, individual things as what is most real, consciousness would up in paradoxes, since everything is an individual thing, which means individual thing is itself an abstract universal. We must turn instead to the complex universal -- and to the perceiving subject, which provides the content of the next section of the Phenomenology
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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The introductory music for the video is: Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 1 in Bm, BWV 1002, is available in the public domain, and can be found at musopen.org.
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