The Absolute In Hegel's Phenomenology Of Spirit

THE ABSOLUTE IS ESSENTIALLY A ‘RESULT’

The highest level of awareness of consciousness is what is referred as Absolute, in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’. The phrase might be an adequate hint for the intention behind the title of the article. Nonetheless, my interest in the article will still be to illustrate why Hegel has said that the Absolute is essentially a result.

Hegel has criticized Romanticism for trying to know the reality through intuitions or feelings. He blamed his former friend Shelling for creating the abstract, vague, and empty formulas and principles in philosophy, such as A=A. Hegel also criticized analytic thinkers for being guided by empirical sciences. If your step was forward, it does not mean that your next step will

And its subject-aspect of Absolute consists of its dynamic, self-realizing impulse. Substance is a medium through which subject externalized itself.

Hegel claims that it is possible for a philosopher to realize that the Absolute is to be conceived both as Substance and as Subject, but fail to properly conceive the nature of these elements of it and their relation to each other.

Absolute exists as self-conscious being, but not as a blind necessity. It is not abstract. Absolute knowing is the fundamental principle of True. The true is the whole. It includes its own genesis, as well as the moment of being with which it stands in a dialectical relation. Its result cannot be separated from its origin. The whole is the essence which brings itself to fulfillment through its development. In this way, the system of philosophy forms an organic, self-grounding whole which bears witness to its own truth. It is an organic totality in which every particular makes its own contribution to the whole and is constituted by the dialectical movement of all the

Substance and subject, taken together, forms an organic whole whose every part works separately and yet in full harmony. Realizing this actual existence and gaining the absolute knowledge is the final stage of evolution through which the Spirit in its both individual and universal domain travels through. The power which pushes Spirit up through this developmental sequence is power of negativity. Every form of consciousness proceeds by negating the flaws of its preceding form and goes beyond it. Eventually when it happens to have certain flaws itself, higher form than it emerges and the process continues till the from which has no undermining flaws. This form is called Absolute which essentially is the result of self-realization process of consciousness as consciousness only has itself as its own object, for