Further Into the Struggle of Enlightenment With Superstition

We're making good progress through this long and quite complex - though often enough schematic - section of the Phenomenology.  If there is one central theme running through the entire section, you might say that it is how both Faith and Pure Insight - as shapes of consciousness - are attempting to work out what they actually are.

Neither of them can really do this apart from their other, since they are what they are in relation to each other.  Even if Insight seems to have an advantage over Faith in the historical period of the Enlightenment, this isn't an absolute priority.  Faith has its own "comebacks", and Insight has a lot to learn. . . .

Here are the next three videos in this portion of the work, covering the next six paragraphs.

• Lecture 228 - paragraphs 549
• Lecture 229 - paragraphs 550-552
• Lecture 230 - paragraphs 553-554

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Four Videos On The Enlightenment

We are now moving into a new section in Spirit - one that is really at the heart of Hegel's entire enterprise - "The Enlightenment."  After a very short introduction - which we managed to get through in just one video lecture - he launches into the first sub-section, "The Struggle of the Enlightenment With Superstition". That part is pretty long - 33 paragraphs, and it will take us a while to get through.

It is followed by a much shorter part, "The Truth of Enlightenment" - just 8 paragraphs long - before we launch into the next main part, "Absolute Freedom and the Terror".  So, you might think of the relationship between these two parts of the Enlightenment section as analogous to the two parts of the earlier "World of Self-Alienated Spirit - Culture" section.  The first one is where much of the action proper takes place, and the second one provides a shorter, transitional treatment, introducing themes that won't be entirely worked through until the following main part of the work.

Here is the one introductory video to this section.

• Lecture 224 - paragraph 538-540

Here are the first three videos in the "The Struggle of the Enlightenment With Superstition" section:

• Lecture 225 - paragraphs 541-543
• Lecture 226 - paragraphs 544-546
• Lecture 227 - paragraphs 547-548