ABSTRACT
The Encyclopedia, though published by Hegel himself, is not a full-fledged book in the same sense as the Phenomenology and Science of Logic. It is, like The Philosophy of Right, essentially an elaborate syllabus that was intended to meet the requirement of the ministry of education that every course must be based on a textbook. The reasons for the new place of phenomenology in Hegel's system were plainly pragmatic. The Phenomenology had been intended as an introduction to the system and a ladder on which one could climb up to the point of view from which the Logic was to be studied, but when teaching teenage boys Hegel discovered that it did not work very well as an introduction. The Phenomenology of 1807 had represented an attempt to cover the whole Philosophy of Spirit. In the system of 1817, however, the opening paragraph of "Subjective spirit," which precedes "A. Soul," suggests how phenomenology can be fitted into the system.
