of Philosophy and Technology

The “Phenomenology of Mind” is a study of appearances, images and illusions throughout the history of human consciousness. In this book Hegel showed the evolution of consciousness and presented a process by which one may attain to understand the absolute truth.

Hegel believed that consciousness starts with “natural consciousness”, anything learned through this consciousness “will prove to be knowledge only in conception, not in reality”. “Natural consciousness” is very frail and dangerous as the kind of knowledge out of this consciousness is often refuted and proved wrong. There are two reactions that a person could do when his assumptions are proven wrong. One, he could attempt to find an objective truth or two, sink down into apathy, subjectivism and nihilism.

If you were confronted with these two choices, which one would you take?