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Excerpt from The Transition From Bewusstsein to Selbstbewusstsein in Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, an Exegetical Essay: With an Introduction and With Notes
Hegel is perhaps more than any other philosopher the pro duct of the Speculation that preceded him, and it would thus seem possible to reproduce his argument in terms which are the common property of philosophy in general. The advantage of clearness which is thus attained is offset by the impossibility of an exact rendition. It is impossible to render the author in familiar terms without more or less perverting his meaning. Thus the commentators have in general been content to restate the argument in the original verbiage, with no great resulting advantage to clearness; nor is the reader helped if the author's style be imitated in a language other than the German.
Hegel largely invented his own technical vocabulary. He was doubtless suspicious of the ambiguity of the terms in famil iar use and aware of their inadequacy to express his meaning. When a new word is introduced it is usually defined, but the definition will in itself scarcely render the meaning intelligible to the reader. It is only after the term has appeared many times in a context that its real meaning begins to appear. Thus the first parts of the system may only become clear in the light of the last.
The Phenomenology is admittedly one of the most difficult of all philosophical works and the present essay makes no pre tense of an understanding of all these difficulties. Moreover the notions that are philosophically significant will be subject to a multitude of interpretations and will be often presentable from many points of view.
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