Greg Detre
5/3/01
epistemology + also initiating you to system
�science of knowledge as it appears�
Wissenschaft � as broad science, beyond just natural sci
scientific attitudes
is the subtitle a printing mistake???
in the Encyclopaedia, the Phenomenology comes at the end � can't do both things in the Phenomenology.Sp at once
we now have the ability to do Science
Geist has gained it now � historicises
trying to initiate the individual in the PhoSp
Encyclopaedia � presents in more negative form
attitudes to objectivity as inadequate
opening chapters � transcendental argument
means of opposing skepticism � all the evidence �/span> appearances
we couldn't have that experience at all, unless there was more to us than just skepticism
minimal conscious of immediate sense certainty is inadequate because the very process of identification leads it to break down
qualia � only conscious wouldn't be a sustainable consciousness
Master-Slave dialectic
must be more than just sense of the self, but consciousness
as an active agent � distinctive for Hegel
(Kant, Weather Watchers)
and unless it�s an agent among other agents
the Problem of Other Minds � problem of solipsism
all our minds are part of Geist
to give our thoughts content, need to participate in shared, intelligent space
- very Wittgenstein
rejects language as coming after rationality
priority of language in the person who uses language to think with
Nietzsche � God + grammar� ������ who first???
language mystics???
Wittgenstein � sceptical about there being a single purpose to language
vs naturalistic evolutionary explanation
Nietzsche + Wittgenstein � naturalists � ish � evolutionary explanation doesn't help with its structure + how it functions now � e.g. evolutionary explanation for altruism doesn't mean it�s disguised selfishness � same with consciousness
can't reduce some things which have evolved � non-reductive explanation
how far do evolutionary explanations go???����� ������ Stephen Jay Gould
Ever since Darwin, Panda�s thumb, Flamingo
Master-Slave
in order to be self-conscious, requires someone who you see as a self seeing you as one
circular???
not just developmental psychology or hist socialogy � can't be empirically refuted
these are a priori structures, theory which you can make empirical development
is this about Geist seeming in itself a self
yes, ultimately to begin with, it�s only at the level of individuals
conscious, self-consciousness, reason, Geist
Erscheinung � appearances � manifestation
schein � appearance (semblance)
cf Eng �shine�, �sheen�
Nietzsche: essence of Apollonian
Hegel: art as �sensible shining� of the Idea
Heidegger � we are in language before language is in us
Taylor - reconstructive
why does Hegel write the way he does???
human consciousness � poised on higher truth vs common consciousness
how express this trancendent mystical???
Hegel thinks that language can help us express more than just common sense, using non-common language
Nietzsche uses parables + jokes etc. for a similar purpose
arguing on the level of common sense is inconsistent to establish his bizarre doctrines