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Justification and Time in Hegel's Phenomenology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Ardis B. Collins*
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Loyola University Chicago
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Abstract

H. S. Harris, in his two-volume study of Hegel's Phenomenology, endorses both the titles that Hegel gave to this work. As a science of experience, Harris says, the Phenomenology situates us within the psychology of the singular self, the self's sense of its own consciousness, and exhibits therein “the conceptual structure of pure science.” As the phenomenology of spirit, the Phenomenology shows how an individual situated within his or her own experience and history belongs to the universal life of a spirit that encompasses all history and all selfhood. Thus, the Phenomenology demonstrates that the temporality of the singular self holds within itself eternity; and it conceives this eternity as the pure logic of philosophical science which is “the interpretation of its world by a rationally scientific community.” Harris intends to show that the Phenomenology is a continuous science in its own right, and that the logic developed in Hegel's philosophical system simply detaches this scientific, logical dimension from its embeddedness in the concreteness of human experience.

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H.S. Harris and Hegel's Phenomenology
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Copyright © The Hegel Society of Great Britain 2001

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