著者

渡辺 祐邦 WATANABE Yuho

出版者

北見工業大学

雑誌

北見工業大学研究報告

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, no.2, pp.445-466, 1976-06

---

J. Hoffmeister has pointed out that Hegel’s view on the culture and history was strongly affected by the writings of a popular philosopher Christian Garve. Garve was indeed one of the most important figures in the German Enlightenment, though his works were almost forgotten today. He was not only a best-known writer who intended to make people capable of thinking by themselves, but a philosopher who broke a path leading to a new philosophy of history. In an essay which he contributed to Neue Bibliothek der schonen Wissenschaften und freien Kunste, one of the most influential magazines for literary criticism of his time, he treated the problem of priority of the modern poets. The issue was not brand new. It was an eighteenth-century revival of the famous controversy in the seventeenth century, Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. His view was, however, entirely new. He discussed the problem by observing the differences and changing structures in the ways to get and transmit ideas among both ancient and modern peoples. He claimed also that the experiences of ancient people had become a property of mankind, of which modern people partake. This very concept introduced by Garve is no doubt one of the bases of Hegel’s philosophy of mind.

著者

渡辺 祐邦 WATANABE Yuho

出版者

北見工業大学

雑誌

北見工業大学研究報告 (ISSN:03877035)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, no.1, pp.109-152, 1973-10

---

This paper aims to make clear some obscure points in the birth of Hegel's famous metaphor "Master and Slave". Investigations are made on 1)its origins in Hegel's early theological writings,2)its prime form in his attempts at philosophical system in the Jena period and 3)related ideas behind the metaphor. The results are : 1.Figures of the slave and the term "Slavery" in the early writings are not of the same meaning as in the later works. They are only an analogy and used for expressing political and religious alienation. He borrowed this usage from the contemporary literature of politics which he read in his youth. 2. In the system of Jena period,"Mastery and Slavery" is a category for the primitive relation of individuals,which is natural but not yet true,and is only a personal overwhelming by violence. 3.In the Phenomenology of Mind,it is a metaphor and not a category of any real social status. It has a pedagogical meaning and relates with many important philosophical ideas of his time,e.g. the ideal of human education of Aufklarung, the cultural forming (Bildung),J. Steuart's theory of the economical dependence of individuals in the civil society,and the reminiscence of the Greek democracy.