李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)

李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)
excerpted from Lectures on the Philosophy of World History : Introduction : Reason in History. Hoffmeister ed. tr. by Nisbet.
( Nisbet, page 73-74 )

p.74 神機啟動 1 (ie. how reason realises itself? )

1. World history begins with it universal ends -- that the CONCEPT of the spirit should be realised -- existing only in itself, ie, as mere nature; it is as yet only an inward, basic, UNCONSCIOUS IMPULSE, and the whole activity of world history, as already mentioned, is a constant ENDEAVOUR ( 盡力 ) to MAKE this impulse CONSCIOUS.

2. Thus, what we have called the subjective element --ie. needs, impulse, passions, particular interests, and opinions or subjective ideas -- is immediately PRESENT to itself from the beginning in the shape of natural being or natural will.

3 This vast conglomeration of volition, interests, and activities is the sum total of Instruments and means which the world spirit employs to accomplish ( 完成 ) its end, to MAKE this end CONSCIOUS and to give it reality;

4. and its end is simply that of FINDING ITSELF, of coming to terms ( 達成協議 ) with itself, and of contemplating ( 思量 ) its OWN ACTUALITY.

5. All these expressions of individual and natural life, in seeking and fulfilling the OWN ENDS, are at the same time th MEANS ( 方法) and INSTRUMENTS ( 工具) of a higher purpose and wider enterprise of which they are themselves ignorant and which they nevertheless unconsciously ( 不知不覺地 ) carry out.

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