I’ve started to read Phenomenology of Spirit, and Science of Logic is on it’s way. Here, below is the levels of cognition that Hegel use in his system. And then a few terms such as being-in-itself and being for-itself which we know understand is part of consciousness or being.
Hegel’s levels of cognition | Hegel’s triad | Nietzsche’s triad |
Absolute knowing (Freedom and Reason, Spirit knowing itself as Spirit) | Concept | Child |
Reason: Speculative or Positive Reason (4) | Concept | Child |
Reason: Dialectical or Negative Reason (3) | Concept | Child |
Self-Consciousness (2) | Essence | Lion |
Understanding (Abstraction, Analysis) (1) | Being | Camel |
Perception | Being | Camel |
Sense-Certainty (Sensation) | Being | Camel |
Substance is split between Self-Identity the Being-in-Itself and Absolute Negativity the Being-for-itself. Through Being-for-another it reach difference, and it’s contradictions. Then moves to Grund, to move to Idenity and then Existance. And it does this in a circular movement of essence which reaches the absolute knowing. Obviosly, this is a pre-understanding of Hegel’s system.
4 + 1 horeses of Hegel’s logic | Progression of determinations of Essence | ||
Being-in-itself (self-identity) | Identity (1) (4) | Universal | Substance |
Being-for-itself (absolute negativity) | Identity (1) (4) | Universal | Substance |
Being-for-another | Difference (2) | Particular | Substance |
Being-in-and-for-itself | Ground (3) | Singular | Subject |
Returning-back-to-itself | Existance (5) | Concrete Universal | Sublated Unity of Subject-Object Substance is Subject |