PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Dialectic
28 Jul 2020
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The absolute as self-thinking thought cannot reach its full and more concrete concept if it does not "self-align" and "recover" itself in a dialectical process that also includes history as a dynamic totality. Thus the absolute in and for itself is "objectified" or "placed" as an external thesis in nature. Otherness is the absolute outside of itself, the very alienation or exteriority of the absolute idea, the otherness of the absolute. It is the absolute-in-itself, because it does not reach to be understood as a moment in the life of the spirit ab- solved in self-consciousness. Nature is a prior condition for the absolute spirit to recover its full self-knowledge through the spirit or the. While the absolute is absolutely free reason, in nature it manifests as being subject to necessity and at the same time to contingency. Contingency is the exterior of rationality and seems pure irrationality.
