Alas, this book failed me and I failed to finish this book. I made it about 3/4 of the way through this book and decided my time would be better spent reading some articles explaining Hegel in a more meaningful way. I expect a collection and analysis of essential writings to include a robust collection of writings which this book did and also bring a greater understanding and context to the reader. Maybe in a class or as read as part of a seminar this book would be helpful in understanding Hegel [...]

Read Introduction, Sense Certainty, Perception, Lordship and Bondage, Self Certainty; also in a Philosophy of Right (Free Will, Abstract Right, and Morality; and Social Life: Family and Civil Society). Hegel's philosophy is still a bit too obtuse for me. Even when he drives it toward concrete, practical situations, it still seems mired in things too big to see and too complex to prove. He falls into that category of philosopher who begins with epistemology, in this case, clarifying the Universal [...]

It's hard, when reading these essays, not to think how smart Hegel was. Even if I so often disagree with him on such a fundamental level. Still, I appreciate, among other things, his pioneering use of the dialectic, his early analysis of the boss/worker relationship, and his revisionist approach to Kant. On the other hand, I find his absolute-idealist approach bothersome. This was the first book-length approach I've taken to Hegel, but I'm still left cold, if only because I'd like to read a full [...]

I've found this very useful as an introduction, especially to the Logic. It gives extracts accompanied by a commentary.

Good book.

Weighty, I'm kind of getting it.