Philosophy of Mind - Classic Reprint Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND INTRODUCTION. 377.] The knowledge of Mind is the highest and hardest, just because it is the most ' concrete' of sciences. The significance of that ' absolute' commandment, Know thyself-whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance-is not to promote mere self-knowledge in resp... more »ect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man's genuine reality-of what is essentially and ultimately true and real-of mind as the true and essential being. Equally little is it the purport of mental philosophy to teach what is called knowledge of men-the knowledge whose aim is to detect the peculiarities, passions, and foibles of other men, and lay bare what are called the recesses of the human heart. Information of this kind is, for one thing, meaningless, unless on the assumption that we know the universal- man as man, and, that always must be, as
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