Hegel\u2019s work itself reads as a flow of the development of consciousness. It is famously opaque, and has been neglected, so my professor claims, mostly due to its breadth and difficulty (Ken Wilber may face similar shunning, from academics at least). Hegel\u2019s development is that of Geist<\/span>, or spirit, over the history of mankind, though it does not read as anything like a history text. I don\u2019t want to spend too much time explaining it here (there are entire books devoted to the Preface<\/a> of the Phenomenology of Spirit<\/span>); I want to jump in and just toss out there, in its most stripped-down form, the entire history of the development of consciousness. However, I\u2019ll do it in my own way, more as the development of a single human being than as the development of a superhistorical Geist<\/span>.<\/p>\n It goes like this (starting at the bottom):
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* indicates portions I have added, that are not explicit in Hegel\u2019s text.<\/p>\n
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