The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Monday, March 7, 2016
Joshua Billings on Hegel's Phenomenology
"The chapter on "Spirit" begins at a crucial juncture in the Phenomenology: Having passed through the stages of individual development, consciousness has finally attained adequate form in Geist, as it recognizes its essential reliance on community. This comes about in the previous chapter, "Reason," as the rational subject of Kantian thought finds its own self-determination inadequate to ethical action, since it is without grounding in any particular society. Reason, the Kantian agent finds, must henceforth be understood as a social practice. With this transition to a genuinely ethical outlook comes also a shift in Hegel's descriptive focus from the individual to the society in which the subject exists." pg. 167-168
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