The Phenomenology of Mind

First published in 2002.Written in 1910, this book is Volume II of Hegel's the Phenomenology of Mind, the VI of a series of seven volumes on his work. A continuation from volume I, it contains the topics of spirit - ethical action, spirit objective, and the spirit n self-estrangement. Then develops into the area of enlightenment and superstition, freedom and terror, and then religion, and absolute knowledge. Table of Contents; (BB). SPIRIT; VI. SPIRIT; A. Objective Spirit: the ethical order; a. The ethical world: law divine and human: man and woman; b. Ethical action: knowledge human and Divine : guilt and Destiny; c. Legal status; B. Spirit in self-estrangement: The discipline of culture and civilisation; I. The world of spirit in self-estrangement; a. Culture and its sphere of reality; b. Belief and pure Insight; II. Enlightenment; a. The struggle of enlightenment with superstition; b. The truth of enlightenment; III. Absolute freedom and terror [The awakening of free subjectivity.]; C. Spirit certain of itself: Morality; a The moral view of the world.; b. Dissemblance; c. Conscience : the “beautiful soul” : Evil and the forgiveness of it; (CC). RELIGION; VII. RELIGION IN GENERAL; A. Natural Religion; a. God as Light.; b. Plants and Animals as religious objects.; c. The artificer.; B. Religion in the form of Art; a. The abstract work of art.; b. The living work of art: the human form as an embodiment of beauty.; c. The spiritual work of art: art expressive of social life.; C. Revealed Religion; (DD). ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE.; VIII. ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE