Recommended by: Ritesh Raj

Content:

CHAPTER I. Sense-Certainty: The This and Meaning; CHAPTER II. Perception: Things and Illusoriness; CHAPTER III. Force and Understanding, Appearance and the Supersensuous World; CHAPTER IV. Self-Certainty's Truth; IV.A. Self-Consciousness Dependent and Independent: Mastery and Servitude; IV.B. The Freedom of Self-Consciousness: Stoicism, Skepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness; CHAPTER V. Reason: Its Certainty and Its Truth.V.A. Observational Reasona. Observation of Nature; b. Observation of Self-Consciousness in Its Purity and in Its Relation to External Reality: Logicaland Psychological Laws; c. Observation of the Relation of Self-Consciousness to Its Immediate Matter-of-Fact Reality:Physiognomy and Phrenology; V.B. The Self-Actualization of Rational Self-Consciousness; a. Pleasure and Necessity; b. The Law of the Heart and Arrogance Run Amok; c. Virtue and the Way of the World; V.C. Individuality That Deems Itself to Be Self-Containedly Real and Realistically Self-Oriented.A. A Realm of Intelligent Animals and Deceit: The Abiding Concernb. Reason as Lawgiver; c. Reason That Puts Laws to the Test; CHAPTER VI. Spirit; VI.A. Pristine Spirit: The Ethical Way of Life; a. The Ethical World: Human and Divine Law, Man and Woman; b. Ethical Action: Knowledge Human and Divine, Guilt and Destiny; c. Legal Status; VI.B. Self-Estranged Spirit: Culture; 1. The World of Self-Estranged Spirit; a. Culture and Its Realm of Actuality; b. Faith and Pure Insight; 2. Enlightenment; a. Enlightenment's Struggle with Superstition; b. The Truth of Enlightenment.3. Total Freedom and Terror VI.C. Spirit Certain of Itself: Morality; a. The Moral World-View; b. Misrepresentation; c. Conscience; the Beautiful Soul: Evil and Its Forgiveness; CHAPTER VII. Religion; VII.A. Natural Religion; a. The Divine Light; b. Plant and Animal; c. The Artificer; VII.B. Art-Religion; a. Abstract Artwork; b. Living Artwork; c. Spiritual Artwork; VII.C. Manifest Religion; CHAPTER VIII. Absolute Knowing