An easy-to-digest introduction the "science of the experience of consciousness" as the German Idealist philosopher GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) understood it, this condensed version of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit-which the author created himself for his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences-explores Hegel's take on: . what mind is . the sensibility of the "physical soul" . the immediacy of the "feeling soul" . consciousness and the intellect . the theoretical mind . memory, intuition, and imagination . the morality of conscience . moral life, or social ethics . revealed religion in the "absolute mind" . and much more. This 1894 translation of the 1827-1830 German original, by Scottish philosopher and Oxford University professor WILLIAM WALLACE (1843-1897), remains a favorite of Hegel students, and is celebrated for its style and eloquence.