Bend But Don't Break

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G.W.F. Hegel

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is 'mind' or that which raises its existence into thought and thereby into an absolute antithesis, and returns out of this antithesis, in and through the antithesis itself.

spirit raises its existence into Thought and thereby into an absolute antithesis, and returns out of this antithesis, in and through the antithesis itself.

is a bodily world, not a metaphysical one. It's most easily seen in the arts, which embody the spiritual vision of a people.

a bodily world, not a metaphysical one. It's most easily seen in the arts, which embody the spiritual vision of a people.

is a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze.

In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes. Matsuo Basho

is alone able to endure contradictions and thereby grow while contradiction in other unqualified 'finite' entities results in destruction or mere replication (e.g. A new seed resulting in the same plant).

Hegel holds that the SPIRIT can endure contradictions, while they result in the destruction of other, unqualifiedly FINITE, entities. This is connected with a further difference between spirit and NATURE. The dialectic of natural things and events does not mirror the dialectic of our thought about them: our thought advances dialectically from lower to higher stages of nature (e.g. from mechanical to organic nature), while the dissolution of a natural entity results in an entity of the same or a similar type (a new seed, say, of the same plant), not in a transition to a higher stage of nature. Spirit, by contrast, has a progressive history (e.g. the destruction of a state often results in a new type of state, not simply a new state of the same type), and thus its development often, though not invariably, corresponds to the advance of our thought about it. (inwood 1992 : 82)

is energy congealed to the point at which we can live with it on a physical level.

Spirit is impervious to illness. Marianne Williamson

is invisible nature... nature is visible spirit.

Nature is visible Spirit... Spirit is invisible Nature. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

is not subjective, but objective, referring to rational purposive forms at a level above individual consciousness including community, culture, custom, law, religion, art, and philosophy.

The earliest English translation of the Phenomenology renders Geist as mind, but this has implications of individual psychology which are not intended by Hegel: the individual mind is only what Hegel calls subjective spirit. Objective spirit refers to the forms that spirit takes at a level above individual consciousness... it is thus associated with community and culture in general, including custom and law. There is also absolute spirit, which includes religion, art and philosophy, and is infinite. What all forms or levels of spirit share is that they are rational, constituted by thought and self-consciousness, and consist in process or purposive activity rather than thinghood. (To define spirit any further is to take a stand on the interpretation of Hegel.)

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