Closereads: Hegel on Stoicism (Part One) @ThePartiallyExaminedLife
Closereads: Hegel on Stoicism (Part One)  @ThePartiallyExaminedLife
Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Discussing the section on Stoicism in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit," which is under "Freedom of Self-Consciousness," "Stoicism, Scepticism, and the Unhappy Consciousness." This comes right after his famous lordship and bondage chapter, and explains how in reaction to being defined by the gaze of another person, we assert our independence, but in an immature and ultimately unsustainable way. So this is not a very charitable take on Stoicism; he's just focusing on this assertion of freedom that's at the heart of the philosophy, and you can think yourself about the degree to which this pollutes more thoughtful, developed versions.

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