Half Hour Hegel: The Complete Phenomenology of Spirit (Force and the Understanding, sec. 136)

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In this fifty-third video in the new series on G.W.F. Hegel's great early work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, I read and comment on paragraph 136 of the text, continuing our study of the third portion of the section "Consciousness," i.e "Force and the Understanding: Appearance and the Supersensible World".

In this long and dense paragraph, Hegel introduces the conception of Force, framing it at first as the movement uniting the different, seemingly opposed aspects that have been studied up until this point. Force, as it applies to a plurality, exhibits itself in its expression, but it is equally Force as a unity, i.e. Force as driven back into itself.

At this point, he also distinguishes between the Notion of Force, as it is for thought, and the reality of Force, as it is in itself -- but these are connected with each other since Force is the unconditioned universal we have been seeking, which means that it incorporates difference within itself, even difference from itself. Both sides of the Force -- expression and return into self -- are moments of the fuller unity involved in it.

In this video series, I will be working through the entire Phenomenology, paragraph by paragraph -- for each one, first reading the paragraph, and then commenting on what Hegel is doing, referencing, discussing, etc. in that paragraph.

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