Phenomenology

Can you pronounce this word? Hegel and Steiner can...How does Sophocles' Antigone and Hegel's Phenomenology of the Mind connect to one another-Perhaps Steiner can answer that question for us. Upon opening Antigones to a very random page and proceeding to read it, I have learned quite a bit about Hegel's most philophosical piece. Steiner deams that although references to Antigone in Hegel's Phenomenology have "not been studied in detail," he points out that it is the strengh behind Hegel's dramactically constructed first six sections: "it has a great drama as its core of reference." After reading (and re-reading, of course) I felt in order to do this page justice, I needed to understand what Hegel's Phenomenology of the Mind acutally is. Phenomenology has been studied by several different people, but Hegel was one of the first. Here is what Wiki has to say about it: "he(Hegel) maintains, we must examine actual knowing as it occurs in real knowledge processes. This is why Hegel uses the term "phenomenology". "Phenomenology" comes from the Greek word for "to appear", and the phenomenology of mind is thus the study of how consciousness or mind appears to itself. In Hegel's dynamic system, it is the study of the successive appearances of the mind to itself, because on examination each one dissolves into a later, more comprehensive and integrated form or structure of mind."
Interesting...by the way, if you are interested in this material, check out page 28

Too many distractions

As I sit here to write this, a terrible noise is traveling to my ear and disturbing my brain. It is the sound of a basketball game on television-how awful that I am stuck here listening to this as I am trying to expand my knowledge and complete my homework. Two minutes ago I sat in silence working diligently on my blog, and now I am accompanied by the terrible, evil black box that most of America is completely glued to. Dr. Sexson is very right-no one reads anymore. Most of my friends stare at the billions of blinking lights flashing sumbliminal messages with pleasure-they are more than content not thinking for themselves to expand their mind. I feel like I read for most of my day-of course I am in school and an English Literature student, but nonetheless...Why is society today okay with letting others think for them? Why is it so difficult to pick up and book and let the eye move from left to write over a series of words that create a sentence, a paragraph, a page, a chapter, and finally a book. Any comments...

new blog

hello classical foundationers-this here is my new blog, i am sorry to disturb all the lists you have made, but please edit your link with this new address. my old blog address was giving me lots of trouble-i couldn't access it for some reason. thank you