Die Form der Dialektik in Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes
Rainer Enskat
Hegel-Studien Band 56 (2023)

Abstract: In his Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel has – in comparison with the enormous complexity of the whole work – in a somewhat hidden way hinted at the formal nucleus of what he conceives of as dialectic, especially as the dialectical movement. This movement has the form of a sceptical examination, testing the claims of the consciousness to be in the possession of knowledge. Such a claim is bound, as Hegel shows, to many different cognitive levels of the consciousness – beginning with sensual certainty and ending with absolute knowledge. The way of the examination corresponds exactly to the levels of the consciousness. But on its way to the absolute knowledge the examination encounters, appropriate to its sceptical intention, as many non-veracious forms of knowledge as are different from absolute knowledge. Each sceptical test which encounters a non-veracious form of knowledge presents necessarily the nothingness of what it is the result, a result which contains what the foregoing non-veracious forms of knowledge save anyhow as true. In the following article it is to show that this nucleus of the form of the dialectical movement stands the test if applied to the step resp. jump from sensual certainty to perception. If the following interpretations and analyses are founded well enough it is justified to be confident that interpretations and analyses of further ‘experiences of consciousness’ on the same line can be fruitful.

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