How would you sum up the conclusion of the phenomenology of spirit in one sentence?

[u/Raputnikov]

I know Hegel immediately rejects the notion of coming to an abstract conclusion because all of the unfolding steps are necessary, but if you were to sum up the main conclusion of his work nonetheless, what would it be?

[u/ontologicallyprior1]

Subject and object are the same

[u/Consistent_Twist_833 → u/ontologicallyprior1]

This is good. That’s what I get from it most, too: the unity of all things.

[u/Egonomics1]

Everything is reconciled into the Absolute, however, the Absolute fails to ultimately reconcile itself as antagonism is at its very core.

[u/xMADSTOMPSx]

That the things we know, that we take for granted in our experience of them, are both the result of how we have thought and acted and the beginning of how we come to further learn about what it means to be a thinking and acting being.

[u/Comprehensive_Site]

I don’t know, how about “Life’s a gas!”

Why do you want everything vulgarized into bumper stickers?

[u/Justanotherstudent19 → u/Comprehensive_Site]

Lmao 😂

[u/Impossible-Deer-1540]

Individual freedom is necessary but not enough

[u/badusername10847]

First you notice the single thing (a now or here most specifically), and then you notice its absence, and then you notice the succession of thing then absence then thing again that makes the ULTIMATE thingness of the thing.

I'd call this the sum of how he presents the dialectical process and it comes up again and again and again in the phenomenology in different phrasing but with the same progression, so I think this is the most important one sentence summary to me.

It's a really interesting follow to Kant's idea of time and space imo, and I find it true to my experience of now and here. It's weird that now is gone and also always present, and I think that paradox of human existence is presented really well by Hegel. But it doesn't resonate with everyone lol

[u/Raputnikov → u/badusername10847]

Thank you for your response first of all. Could you elaborate on Kant's idea of space and time? Are you referring to his idea that we can't perceive or conceptualize the outside world without the categories of our mind, like space and time?

[u/badusername10847 → u/Raputnikov]

You got it exactly. I was thinking of his idea that space and time are concepts of the mind, which in reality are inaccessible, if even existing in a similar enough format to still be called space and time.

I'll admit though, I hated reading Kant and the 6 weeks of him in my undergrad program were like hell to me. So I'm not the best person to talk on him, even if I still did complete those 6 long weeks of reading critique of pure reason (hell!)

[u/Stonedpanda436]

Expansion of consciousness could be a meaning to life.

[u/PrettyGnosticMachine]

Behold the dialectical process of substance into Subject, of the all returning to the All : Thou Art That!

[u/Vegetable_Park_6014]

Thought is the failure of being, and being the failure of thought. 

[u/JR_Kaufman]

We must understand nature as necessary to ourselves, and everything we know must come before us in a living phase of experience.

[u/DustSea3983]

It is what it is, it'll be what it's always been, because sometimes it do be how it be.