SPIRIT, CONSCIOUSNESS, BEING AND REALITY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL AND HEIDEGGER
Davi Rodrigues de Oliveira, Maria Clara França de Lima Vieira
Artefactum September 21, 2026 DOI: 10.23900/artefactum.v25i9.4297 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that reading Hegel and Heidegger together, through the concepts of spirit and time, repositions the question of the conditions of possibility of reality, consciousness, and philosophical thought itself. Although the two begin from distinct ontological presuppositions, both challenge static conceptions of reality and try to understand the movement through which being manifests, is thought, and becomes intelligible. |
Abstract
This article investigates the relationships between spirit, consciousness, being, and reality based on the philosophies of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Martin Heidegger. It starts from the Hegelian understanding of spirit as a movement of self-knowledge and as a process through which consciousness overcomes immediate forms of grasping reality towards the concept and absolute knowledge. Subsequently, it analyzes Heidegger's question of being, particularly from the distinction between being and entity and the existential analysis of Dasein, understood as the privileged entity that has an understanding of being. The study also establishes dialogues with Kant, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, seeking to understand the continuities and breaks between different ways of thinking about reality, consciousness, and being in the Western philosophical tradition. Finally, it brings Hegel and Heidegger closer through the concepts of spirit and time, highlighting that, although they start from distinct ontological presuppositions, both question static conceptions of reality and seek to understand the movement through which being manifests, is thought, and becomes intelligible. It is thus argued that the confrontation between the two philosophers allows for the repositioning of the question concerning the conditions of possibility of reality, consciousness, and philosophical thought itself.