Reason, Self-Transcendence, and Modernity in Hegel’s Phenomenology
Oxford Handbooks Online June 6, 2017 William F. Bristow
Chapter 5 displays narrative unity in the “Reason chapter” of Hegel’s Phenomenology by showing how consciousness as reason becomes, and takes successive forms as, purposive activity: first, as organism, then, as end-directed human action, and finally, as human action that is its own end. The successive forms of purposive activity in the chapter are generated as attempts to resolve the...