PHI 1104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Soft Despotism, Critical Philosophy, Bourgeoisie
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Hegel isn"t satisfied between subjectivity and objectivity. Absolute truth, any truth, happens when my mind corresponds to an object. There is something happening in the = (copula, to join together grammatically) Both a statement of identity, and also an expression of difference. Formulation of a type of truth, kind of absolute truth, intuition, feeling, idea. Instead of separating these things, hegel says if there is truth, it must be in the universal possibility for mind to meet matter. Consciousness is the relationship, feeling, sense, of not being something else. We are conscious of ourselves by the fact that we know that we are not other people, not the world, not other objects. Consciousness is derived by a certain relation to others. There is more than one way that this consciousness happens. Historically, there have been different relationships between subjectivity and objectivity.