ABSTRACT
The key themes of G. W. F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit are first, the nature and limits of human knowledge, and second, his belief that the influential philosopher Immanuel Kant's work on Idealism. Phenomenology text's four central ideas: thought and meaning are essentially dependent upon the community, thought's access to objects as they are "in truth" is always mediated by concepts, thought and being are identical and, history is the progressive education of human beings toward freedom. When Hegel introduces the ideas of "negation" and "mediation", he is referring to concepts producing new concepts. These two new terms refer to the complex process required to create the new concept (the negation) and its relationship to the old concept (the mediation). This is a three-stage process that was later described as a triadic structure of thesis (a thought that has proved to be unsatisfactory), antithesis (an idea that confirms the suspicion about the flaws in the thesis) and, finally, synthesis.
