Given the certain difficulty existing in Hegel's books. I have provided a quick presentation on the introduction of the Phenomenology of Spirit, based on the work of Dr. Gregory B. Sadler.

1. Introduction to the
Phenomenology of Spirit
Dialectical Process

2. Subject
( I )
Cognition
(knowledge)
Object
(Absolute)
Medium?
Instrument?

3. Fear of Error
Science
(Wissenschaft)
Something
Error
Science
(Wissenschaft)
Cognition

4. Science
(Cognition)
Absolute
(Truth)
Other modes of cognition = other modes of truth
• Mathematics
• Neuroscience
• Drink Mixing

5. Reject
Worries about cognition as an
instrument or medium – Cognition
cut off from the Absolute
Assuming Science can’t get to
truth, so as not to need to do the
work of Science
Even refuting these
ideas/approaches
What is
their
‘Notion’?
I
Cognition
Absolute
Science (appearence) = not yet fully
developed, worked out or reflexed.

6. Phenomenal Knowledge
Free and self-moving
Natural
Consciousness
(Soul)
Stages
(Gestalten)
Knowledge
Life of the Spirit
(Awareness)

7. Natural Consciousness
(Doubt? Skepticism?)
Notion
(of Knowledge)
Knowledge
(Completed Notion)
Following one’s
own convictions Giving over to
Authority (of third
parties)

8. (un)real
consciousness
(un)real
consciousness
(un)real
consciousness
Completion
Natural
Consciousness
(untruth)
Progress
(determined
nothingness)
Skepticism
(pure nothingness)

9. Goals:
Notion (Begriff) Object (Gegenstand)
Corresponds to
(entspricht)
Notion (Begriff)Object (Gegenstand)
Consciouness
(Notion of Itself)
FREEDOM
Unthinking Inertia
Sentimentality
Skepticism/Vanity
BEYOND
No satisfaction to be found along the way

10. Relating Science to Phenomenal Knowledge
Examination (Prüfung) of reality of cognition
Inquiry
Pressupositions
(AXIOMS)
Criteria
Examination
Standard
(in itself,
essence)
Thing Examined

11. Consciousness
Cognition
(relates/distinguishes)
The Other
For
Consciousness In Itself

12. Consciousness
Knowledge for...
Object In-Itself (truth)
What is Knowledge In-Itself?

13. Knowledge for...
Object In-Itself (truth)Consciousness
Criteria
Comparisson

14. Consciousness
Consciousness Object
Just Watching
(reine Zusehen)
Notion Object
Criteria
What is
assessed
Knowledge
vs. In-Itself

15. Cosciousness
Consciousness
Knowledge
Object
(In-Itself)
Object
(for Consciousness)
Experience (Erfahrung)

16. Cosciousness
Consciousness
Knowledge
Object
(In-Itself)
Object
(for Consciousness)
Contigency Necessity
Other Object
(chance, externality)
Reality In-Itself!

17. Consciousness
(Experience of Self)
Notion
Entire System of
Consciousness
Determined
Period
Determined
Period
END
Patterns (Gestalten) of Consciousness