Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit:
133.
ARGUMENT:
with this Understanding consciousness has superseded its own untruth and the untruth
of its object
what has emerged is the Notion of True - but this is not yet a Notion - it lacks the
being-for-self of consciousness
the Understanding without knowing itself - lets go its own way -
this truth follows out of its own essence - consciousness plays no part in its realization
- it simply apprehends it
we must step into its place and be the Notion which develops and fills out
it is through awareness of this fully developed object that consciousness first becomes
a consciousness that comprehends its object
COMMENTARY:
consciousness superseding its own truth and its object's - is to point out that
consciousness posits or holds the object in awareness - and so too consciousness
posits or holds itself in awareness -
and the reason for this is the first realization of consciousness - that its object is
unknown - and the second realization is that it (consciousness) is unknown
whatever thus comes to be the object and the awareness of the object is never held
with certainty - consciousness deals with the world and with itself as uncertain posits
and this fact is the origin of consciousness' creativity - what I guess Hegel would call
its movement
the movement of consciousness is no more than its uncertainty in action
truth in fact is just a marker for consciousness - if a state of consciousness is marked
as true it is viewed as having function - if false - the marke is do not proceed - go
directly to jail
this fully developed object is just the unknown with layers of clothes - and the truth of
this adornment is only to do with whether these accessories enable the object to have
the function consciousness intends
