Consciousness (n.) is a dialectical process, positing a basic category that engenders a contradiction, which is 'negated,' and falls apart, creating a need for a more complex category that smooths over the contradiction.
Consciousness (n.) is a generic term for cognitive awareness with many species, some of which contrast starkly with one another.
Consciousness (n.) is a public phenomenon such that perception is a realism in which any individual's idiosyncratic private apprehension will always be in principle correctable by the experience of others.
Consciousness (n.) is a relationship (deeply social and historical) between a subject (knowing and acting) and an object (known and acted on) which can only develop fully in specific kinds of social practices and institutions.
Consciousness (n.) manifests differently each time it takes a different object. It is neither that objects produce consciousness nor that consciousness produces its objects. They enter into a dance with each other.
Consciousness (n.) is aware of itself, as well as its objects: Its awareness of a discrepancy between itself and its object brings about the advance to a new form, whose object is the previous form of consciousness.
Consciousness (n.) is concerned with developing the object against which it develops itself. It does not dissolve paradoxes, but only 'develops' the contradictions that are present therein.
Consciousness (n.) is not a uniform medium that remains unaltered while its objects vary: The character of the consciousness varies with that of its objects.
Consciousness (n.) is not responsible for producing its object. Nor does the object produce consciousness. The terms are correlative: The character of the consciousness varies with that of its objects.
Consciousness (n.) is not self-identical,but but a purely casual, confused medley, the dizziness of a perpetually self-engendered disorder.
Consciousness (n.) is publicly graspable and in principle correctable by the experience of others through a kind of perceptual realism that he calls 'perception'.
Consciousness (n.) goes beyond limits, and since these limits are its own, it is something that goes beyond itself.
Consciousness (n.) knows in knowing itself.
Consciousness (n.) is a thing whereby, upon a discovery that its knowledge does not correspond to its object, the criterion for testing is altered both concerning what we know, and also of what knowing is.
Consciousness (n.) is that which, in the observation of things, comes to know what things are, and through which we thereby come to know what consciousness itself is.
Consciousness (n.) is the absolute dialectical unrest, a medley of sensuous and intellectual representations whose differences coincide and whose identity is dissolved.