Half Hour Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit (Stoicism, Skepticism, Unhappy Consciousness, sec. 200-201)

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In this eighty-second video in the new series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, we begin our study of the third portion of the section "Self-Consciousness", i.e. "The Freedom of Self-Consciousness". I read and comment on paragraphs 200 and 201 of the text here.

Stoicism does represent an advance, a new shape of consciousness, but in these paragraphs, Hegel exhibits the limitations of Stoicism as part of a larger system of development of consciousness. Its weakness lies in the very fact that Stoicism works by a withdrawl into abstract thought. This is indeed an expression of an essential possibility for human being -- a kind of freedom.

But the challenge lies in being able to also grapple with the concrete, the particular, the arbitrary that has been pushed away -- individuality, which is equally real. Stoicism finds itself unable to adequately address the multiplicity of things (Life) and the contingent, conditioned side of the thinking person (Individuality). This is reflected in the use Stoicism makes of the criterion of the Good and the True, which turn out to either be contentless, and thus useless, or to be conditioned, and then seemingly not essential

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