The Epistemology of Hegel's Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit

Hegel introduced G. W. F, epistemology of spiritual phenomenology. Hegel proposes a process that allows people to know the absolute truth. This process shows that we gradually evolve from the state of "natural consciousness" (56) (1) to the state of perfect self-consciousness. By understanding the relationship between consciousness and truth, we can understand the essence of our existence.

One of the most difficult philosophical works of Hegel's historical phenomenology is Hegel's spiritual phenomenology. In the "introduction" of this work, Hegel tried to help the reader by explaining the project he had done. However, like many things Hegel wrote, "Introduction" itself is difficult to understand. In this article we try to "understand" "introduction" to help understand phenomenology. To achieve this goal, I took the great freedom to compare the philosopher with the blind man, the reality, and the elephant.

Hegel's first important work is "psycho-phenomenology", where he proposed the concept of phenomenology as a philosophical scientific method. Hegel's phenomenology is not phenomenology. Because it is now known by Husserl, Heidegger and others. However, it is equally reasonable to use the term name. Hegel's phenomenology is to learn about experience 2, such as experienced athletes, teachers, artists, when saying that someone has experienced something. Why study? In psychological phenomena, the subject of exploration is the spiritual experience of entering scientific knowledge, that is, the experience of human thought when entering absolute knowledge, such experiences in particular will lead to understanding themselves . What is this experience? The spirit gradually corrects itself by testing herself through its "natural" form of consciousness, seeing its mistakes, remembering its own actions and thought processes and using it as the basis of the truth .