Half Hour Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit (Absolute Knowing, 808)

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In this 376th video in the series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, we continue our study of the final section of the work, "Absolute Knowing". I read and comment on paragraph 808 of the text here, which runs

"But the other side of its Becoming, History, is a conscious,
self-mediating process - Spirit emptied out into Time; but this
externalization, this kenosis, is equally an externalization of
itself; the negative is the negative of itself. This Becoming
presents a slow-moving succession of Spirits, a gallery of images,
each of which , endowed with all the riches of Spirit, moves thus
slowly just because the Self has to penetrate and digest this
entire wealth of its substance. As its fulfilment consists in per
fectly knowing what it is, in knowing its substance, this knowing
is its withdrawal into itseif in which it abandons its outer existence
and gives its existential shape over to recollection. Thus
absorbed in itself, it is sunk in the night of its self-consciousness;
but in that night its vanished outer existence is preserved, and
this transformed existence - the former one, but now reborn of
the Spirit's knowledge - is the new existence, a new world and
a new shape of Spirit.

In the immediacy of this new existence
the Spirit has to start afresh to bring itself to maturity as if,
for it, all that preceded were lost and it had learned nothing
from the experience of the earlier Spirits. But recollection, the
inwardizing, or that experience, has preserved it and is the inner
being, and in fact the higher form of the substance. So
although this Spirit starts afresh and apparently from its own
resources to bring itself to maturity, it is none the less on a higher
level that it starts. The realm of Spirits which is formed in this
way in the outer world constitutes a succession in Time in which
one Spirit relieved another of its charge and each took over the
empire of the world from its predecessor. Their goal is the
revelation of the depth of Spirit, and this is the absolute Notion. This revelation is, therefore, the raising-up of its depth, or its
extension, the negativity of this withdrawl, a negativity which
is its externalization or its substance, and this revelation is also
the Notion's Time, in that this externalization is in its own self
externalized, and just as it is in its extension, so it is equally
in its depth, in the Self.

The goal, Absolute Knowing, or Spirit
that knows itself as Spirit, has for its path the recollection of the Spirits as they are in themselves and as they accomplish
the organization of their realm. Their preservation, regarded
from the side of their free existence appearing in the form of contingency) is History; but regarded from the side of their [philosophically] comprehended organization, it is the Science of
Knowing in the sphere of appearance: the two together, comprehended
History, form alike the inwardizing and the Calvary
of absolute Spirit, the actuality, truth, and certainty of his
throne, without which he would be lifeless and alone.

Only
from the chalice of this realm of spirits
foams forth for Him his own infinitude."

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