The hegelian absolute as condition of possibility of pure thought.: Freedom, self-consciousness and experience in Hegel

Abstract

This article shows how the Aristotelian thinking that thinks itself is fully realized in the Hegelian idea of the spirit as absolute. Consciousness is self-consciousness if the subject of that consciousness is an absolute subject, the pure thought of spirit that dissolves all darkness. Only this pure thought is free, absolu-tely independent. The experience of consciousness as a manifestation of the spirit isits movement of self-knowledge and self-realization. This phenomenology of spirit is the being of spirit and the unfolding of the absolute. The true being of the spiritis realized in its self-knowledge. That is why the absolute and the knowledge of theabsolute is the same. The absolute is not transcendent being but only exists in us, inthe intersubjective self-consciousness.