The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2, 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 2 by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. (Translated by James Black Baillie.) Read in English by 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." Note, this is the second volume of two. (Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2
• Author credits: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 12:05:00

Catalogue topics

• idealism
• hegelianism
• dialectics
• phenomenology of spirit

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Chapter 6 - Spirit — 12:28
2. 02 - Chapter 6A - Objective Spirit,--The Ethical Order — 2:51
3. 03 - Chapter 6A-a - The Ethical World: Law Human and Divine: Man and Woman — 35:42
4. 04 - Chapter 6A-b - Ethical Action. Knowledge, Human and Divine. Guilt and Destiny. — 33:17
5. 05 - Chapter 6A-c - The Condition of Right or Legal Status — 15:12
6. 06 - Chapter 6B - Spirit in Self-estrangement--The Discipline of Culture — 14:00
7. 07 - Chapter 6B(I)a - The World of Spirit in Self-estrangement - Culture and its Sphere of Objective Reality (part 1) — 35:26
8. 08 - Chapter 6B(I)a - The World of Spirit in Self-estrangement - Culture and its Sphere of Objective Reality (part 2) — 39:35
9. 09 - Chapter 6B(I)b - Belief and Pure Insight — 20:11
10. 10 - Chapter 6B(II)a - The Struggle of Enlightenment with Superstition — 1:02:46
11. 11 - Chapter 6B(II)b - The True Result of Enlightenment — 17:25
12. 12 - Chapter 6B(III) - Absolute Freedom and Terror — 23:40
13. 13 - Chapter 6C - Spirit in the Condition of being Certain of Itself: Morality — 7:47
14. 14 - Chapter 6C-a - The Moral View of the World — 26:28
15. 15 - Chapter 6C-b - Dissemblance — 30:04
16. 16 - Chapter 6C-c - Conscience: The ''Beautiful Soul'': Evil and the Forgiveness of it (part 1) — 43:17
17. 17 - Chapter 6C-c - Conscience: The ''Beautiful Soul'': Evil and the Forgiveness of it (part 2) — 37:08
18. 18 - Chapter 7 - Religion in General — 26:35
19. 19 - Chapter 7A - Natural Religion — 8:13
20. 20 - Chapter 7A-a - God as Light — 4:58
21. 21 - Chapter 7A-b - Plants and Animals as Objects of Religion — 4:18
22. 22 - Chapter 7A-c - The Artificer — 9:25
23. 23 - Chapter 7B - Religion in the Form of Art — 8:16
24. 24 - Chapter 7B-a - The Abstract Work of Art — 25:51

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