ABSTRACT
IT may be said that the thought identified by Hegel with being is not ordinary thought, but thought lifted to the level of Self-consciousness or Absolute Consciousness. The Absolute Consciousness is the result of the Phenomenology of Mind. "What mind prepares for itself in the course of its phenomenology is the element of true knowledge. In the element the moments of mind are now set out in the form of thought pure and simple, which knows its object to itself. They no longer involve the opposition between being and knowing: they remain within the undivided simplicity of the knowing function: they are the truth in the form of truth, and their diversity is merely the diversity of the content of truth. The process by which they are developed into an organically connected whole is Logic or Speculative Philosophy."1 In his Science of Logic Hegel writes: "The concept of pure Science, and the Deduction of it, are assumed in the present treatise so far as this, that the Phenomenology of Spirit is nothing other than the deduction of the concept. Absolute knowledge is the Truth of all modes of Consciousness, because according to the process of knowledge it is only when absolute knowledge has been reached that the separation of the Object of Knowledge from the Subjective Certainty is completely resolved, and Truth is equated to this Certainty and this Certainty equated to Truth."
