Hegel's Philosophy of Mind, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [big ebook reader .txt] 📗

Footnotes 1. Plato, Rep. 527. 2. The prospectus of the System of Synthetic Philosophy is dated 1860. Darwin's Origin of Species is 1859. But such ideas, both in Mr. Spencer and others, are earlier than Darwin's book. 3. Hegel's Verhältniss, the supreme category of what is called actuality: where object is necessitated by outside object. 4. Cf. Herbart, Werke (ed. Kehrbach), iv. 372. This consciousness proper is what Leibniz called « Apperception, » la connaissance réflexive de l'état intérieur (Nouveaux Essais). 5. Herbart, Werke, vi. 55 (ed. Kehrbach). 6. p. 59 (§ 440). 7. p. 63 (§ 440). 8. These remarks refer to four out of the five Herbartian ethical ideas. See also Leibniz, who (in 1693, De Notionibus juris et justitiae) had given the following definitions: “Caritas est benevolentia universalis. Justitia est caritas sapientis. Sapientia est scientia felicitatis.” The jus naturae has three grades: the lowest, jus strictum; the second, aequitas (or caritas, in the narrower sense); and the highest, pietas, which is honeste, i.e. pie vivere. 9. To which the Greek πόλις, the Latin civitas or respublica, were only approximations. Hegel is not writing a history. If he were, it would be necessary for him to point out how far the individual instance, e.g. Rome, or Prussia, corresponded to its Idea. 10. Shakespeare's phrase, as in Othello, iii. 2; Lover's Complaint, v. 24. 11. Iliad, xii. 243. 12. See Hegel's Logic, pp. 257 seq. 13. See p. 153 (§ 550). 14. Cf. Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel, chaps. xviii, xxvi. 15. As stated in p. 167 (Encycl. § 554). Cf. Phenom. d. Geistes, cap. vii, which includes the Religion of Art, and the same point of view is explicit in the first edition of the Encyclopaedia. 16. Philosophie der Religion (Werke, xi. 5). 17. Hegel, Phenomenologie des Geistes (Werke, ii. 545). The meeting-ground of the Greek spirit, as it passed through Rome, with Christianity. 18. Ib., p. 584. 19. Phenomenologie des Geistes (Werke, ii. 572). Thus Hegelian idealism claims to be the philosophical counterpart of the central dogma of Christianity. 20. From the old Provençal Lay of Boëthius. 21. It is the doctrine of the intellectus agens, or in actu; the actus purus of the Schoolmen. 22. Einleitung in die Philosophie, §§ 1, 2. 23. Psychologie als Wissenschaft, Vorrede. 24. Einleitung in die Philosophie, §§ 11, 12. 25. Einleitung in die Philosophie, § 18: cf. Werke, ed. Kehrbach, v. 108. 26. Cf. Plato's remarks on the problem in the word Self-control. Republ. 430-1. 27. Lehrbuch der Psychologie, §§ 202, 203. 28. Allgemeine Metaphysik, Vorrede. 29. Hauptpunkte der Metaphysik (1806), § 13. 30. Werke, ed. Kehrbach (Ueber die Möglichkeit, &c), v. 96. 31. Ibid., p. 100.