| Preface | viii |
| Conventions | xii |
| Introduction to the Analysis of Part II of Hegel's Phenomenology | 1 |
| Analysis of Part II | 9 |
VI. | Spirit | 11 |
| Introductory Remarks | 11 |
A. | Spirit as "True." Objective Ethicality. [Ethical and Legal Consciousness] | 13 |
a. | The Ethical World. Human and Divine Law. Man and Woman [Ethical Consciousness] | 14 |
b. | Ethical Action. Human and Divine Knowledge. Guilt and Destiny | 23 |
c. | The Condition of Right or Legal Status [Legal Consciousness] | 30 |
| Introductory Remarks | 30 |
B. | Self-Alienated Spirit. Culture. [Cultural Consciousness] | 35 |
| Introductory Remarks | 35 |
I. | The World of Self-Alienated Spirit | 38 |
a. | Culture and its Realm of Activity [Economic vs. Political Consciousness] | 38 |
| Introductory Remarks | 39 |
1. | The heroism of flattery | 47 |
2. | Base flattery | 49 |
3. | The language of distraughtness | 50 |
| Introductory Remarks | 50 |
4. | The confrontation of the distraught consciousness and the honest consciousness | 52 |
b. | Faith and Pure Insight [Catholic vs. Secular Consciousness] | 54 |
| Introductory Remarks | 54 |
1. (a) | Faith considered in itself | 59 |
1. (b) | Faith in relation to the actual world of culture | 60 |
1. (c) | Faith in relation to the attitude of Insight | 61 |
2. (a) | Insight in itself | 61 |
II. | Enlightenment [The Pyrrhic Victory of Insight over Faith] | 62 |
| Introductory Remarks | 62 |
2. (b) | Insight in relation to the world | 63 |
a. | The Struggle of Englightenment with Superstition | 64 |
2. (c) | Insight in relation to Faith | 64 |
2. (c)-1. | Insight as inherently one with Faith | 65 |
2. (c)-2. | Insight as the antithesis of the world of Faith | 66 |
b. | The Truth of Englightenment [Utilitarianism] | 78 |
III. | Absolute Freedom and Terror [Revolutionary Conciousness] | 83 |
| Introductory Remarks | 83 |
C. | Spirit That is Certain of Itself. Morality. [Moral Consciousness] | 92 |
| Introductory Remarks | 92 |
a. | The Moral View of the World | 95 |
b. | Dissemblance or Duplicity | 101 |
c. | Conscience. The "Beautiful Soul." Evil and its Forgiveness | 107 |
| Introductory Remarks | 107 |
VII. | Religion [Spirit as Self-Conscious or Transcendent] | 125 |
| Introductory Remarks | 125 |
A. | Nature-Religion [Intersubjective Self-Consciousness through Nature] | 131 |
| Introductory Remarks | 132 |
a. | The Religion of Light [Lichtwesen] | 134 |
b. | Plant and Animal Deification | 135 |
c. | The Religious Artisan | 136 |
B. | Religion in the Form of Art [Intersubjective Self-Consciousness through Art] | 138 |
| Introductory Remarks | 138 |
a. | The Abstract Work of Art | 140 |
b. | The Living Work of Art | 145 |
c. | The Spiritual Work of Art | 147 |
C. | Revealed Religion [Intersubjective Self-Consciousness through Christianity] | 154 |
| Introductory Remarks | 154 |
a. | The Trinity Conceived in its Interiority | 161 |
b. | The Relations of the Triune Absolute ad extra | 162 |
c. | Synthesis of the Divine and the Human in a Religious Community after the Protestant Pattern | 164 |
| Introductory Remarks | 164 |
VIII. | Absolute Knowledge [The Dialectical Comprehension of the Content of Religion] | 172 |
| Introductory Remarks | 172 |
A. | Spirit's Reconciliation of Consciousness and Self-Consciousness in Conscience | 178 |
B. | Religion's Reconciliation of Self-Consciousness and Consciousness in the Christian Community | 180 |
C. | Unification of the Two Reconciliations in Absolute Knowledge | 181 |
Appendix | Some Literary Works Used by Hegel | 187 |
| Bibliography | 194 |
| Index | 199 |