A subjetividade e a gênese do conceito na fenomenologia do espírito de G.W.F. Hegel

Abstract

This research sought to address the issue that involves the importance and function of finite subjectivity in the Hegelian philosophy. In order to do so, let us focus on the interpretation of parts of the book Phenomenology of Spirit from 1807, that expose the development of subjectivity as its central theme. In particular, we discuss the arguments and solutions pointed out by Hegel in the chapters Reason and Spirit of that book. Our interpretation of the last figures of Reason led us to the conclusion that finite subjectivity as a single individual participates fundamentally in the production and effectiveness of the concepts, for we find that because of its nature, determined as the negative character of the spirit, it is never totally overcome and dissolved in universality, as some authors ought to defend. Hegel himself assumes his dissolution and replacement as necessary for the production and proper movement of the concepts, as expressed in the book the Science of Logic, which seeks to expose speculative science. With this comprehension, we aim to perceive that the identity between subjectivity and universality occurs in a different way, as a procedural identity and not fixed and enclosed in a form of undifferentiated universality, as suggested by some interpretations of this question in Hegel's work.