Hegel's Pheneomenology of Spirit:
135.
ARGUMENT:
the unconditioned universal is an object for consciousness - there emerges in it the
distinction of form and content - and in the shape of content the moments look like
they did in the first presentation - on one side - a universal medium of many subsistent
'matters' - on the other a One reflected into itself - in which their independence is
extinguished
these moments exist only in this universality - they are no longer separated from one
another - they are essentially self-superseding aspects - and what is posited is only
their transition into one another
COMMENTARY:
I have an argument with Hegel regarding his unconditioned universal - either it is
unconditioned or it is not -
if it is unconditioned it is without form and content - it is pre these conditions
and as such it is correctly understood as the unknown -
and in my terms the description 'unconditioned universal' can be dropped altogether
on the other hand if Hegel is offering a theory of the object - his unconditioned
universal as stated above - all very well - this is a reflective argument concerning the
unknown -
as I have said before as a theory of the unknown such a creation is in principle as good
as any other
but let's be absolutely clear here - what we are talking about is a theory of the object of
consciousness -
a theory of - the object is not this theory - the theory is a response to the object - and
here I mean the object is pre any such theory - the object 'in itself' is unknown - and
remains so regardless of one's ingenuity and imagination
