Hegel: A Guide for the Perplexed
- New Delhi Bloomsbury 2017
- 164p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Hegel`s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit ............4 Kant and fichte on Self-Consciousness ..........4 Self-Consciousness as the Truth of Consciousness ......12 The Universal Self-Consciousness of Spirit ..........21 2. Objective Spirit : The philosophy of Right ......31 Right as objectified will .......31 Abstract right .........35 The moral Standpoint ...........40 Civil Society ...........52 Ethical Life .............57 The philosophy of History ..............68 3. Art and Religion ..........77 The religious function of Art ............77 The ethical Function of Art ...........83 Christianity and the Problem of Positivity .........90 Hegel`s Account of Faith ..........95 Faith and the enlightenment ....102 Hegel`s Critique of Religious representational Thought ......105 4. Philosophy : The metaphysics of Freedom .......114 Logic or Speculative philosophy .......114 Hegel`s Critique of Spinoza`s Theory of Substance ..........120 Hegel`s Dialectical Method ...........126 The Idea .........135