The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1, credited to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. (Translated by James Black Baillie.) Read in English by maurice; Foon Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind, because the German word Geist has both meanings. Phenomenology was the basis of Hegel's later philosophy and marked a significant development in German idealism after Kant. Focusing on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, physics, ethics, history, religion, perception, consciousness, and political philosophy, The Phenomenology is where Hegel develops his concepts of dialectic (including the Master-slave dialectic), absolute idealism, ethical life, and Aufhebung. The book had a profound effect in Western philosophy, and "has been praised and blamed for the development of existentialism, communism, fascism, death of God theology, and historicist nihilism." - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1
• Author credits: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 13:15:49

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• german idealism
• phenomenology

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Translator's Preface — 42:00
2. 01 - Preface part 1 — 31:15
3. 02 - Preface part 2 — 33:19
4. 03 - Preface part 3 — 32:28
5. 04 - Preface part 4 — 24:50
6. 05 - Introduction: Intention and Method of the Argument of the Phenomenology — 27:57
7. 06 - Chapter 1: Sense-certainty, or the this and ''meaning'' — 25:57
8. 07 - Chapter 2: Perception: or things and the deceptive-ness of perceptual experience — 37:45
9. 08 - Chapter 3: Force and Understanding: Appearance and the supersensible world; part 1 — 26:38
10. 09 - Chapter 3: Force and Understanding: Appearance and the supersensible world; part 2 — 43:01
11. 10 - Chapter 4: The true nature of self-certainty — 24:26
12. 11 - Chapter 4A: Independence and Dependence of Self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage — 26:36
13. 12 - Chapter 4B: Freedom of Self-consciousness: Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness — 57:49
14. 13 - Chapter 5A-a(1): Certainty and Truth of Reason; Observation as a mode of things of Nature — 47:33
15. 14 - Chapter 5A-a(2): Observation of organic existence — 29:25
16. 15 - Chapter 5A-a(3): Observation of nature as an organic whole — 40:24
17. 16 - Chapter 5A-b: Logical and Psychological laws — 16:25
18. 17 - Chapter 5A-c: Physiognomy and Phrenology; part 1 — 28:02
19. 18 - Chapter 5A-c: Physiognomy and Phrenology; part 2 — 42:30
20. 19 - Chapter 5B: Realisation of Rational Self-Consciousness — 20:30
21. 20 - Chapter 5B-a: Pleasure and Necessity — 12:48
22. 21 - Chapter 5B-b: The Law of the Heart and the Frenzy of Self-conceit — 20:15
23. 22 - Chapter 5B-c: Virtue and the Course of the World — 22:01
24. 23 - Chapter 5C: Individuality, which takes Itself to be Real in and for Itself — 6:34

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