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Ep. 275: Hegel's Project in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Consciousness Is a Thing That Goes Beyond Limits

The way consciousness always goes beyond itself. As it posits this alien other outside of itself. It says, there is a thing in itself outside of me. So he'll say, thus, consciousness suffers this violence at his own hands. It spoils its own limited satisfaction. How do we spoil our limited satisfaction? Well, we say, hey, there's objects out there beyond consciousness, and i'm related to them. And then we say, oh no, wait a minute. That doesn't work. Because tough i can only know my relationship to them,. We will see how complicated this gets.

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