/lit/ - Literature

I'm reading through Phenomenology of Spirit and I just don't get what he means by physical things are just manifestations of Spirit. It sounds like he's saying the universe only exists because eventually there will be conscious beings that will perceive things. Is this wrong?

His second unstated thesis points directly at Remarque's famous — and nebulous, "nebelhaft", — foreword: The book is neither supposed to be an "accusation" nor a "confession", and "dann bliebe nur übrig, daß es [the book] die nackte Wahrheit sein will, ohne speculative Absicht" (p. 4), the only remaining possibility is that the book wants to be the naked truth without speculative intent.

Perhaps Scheld doesn't explore every other option outside of "naked truth", but neither could he because Remarque asserts himself as a negation, except is a bad, ill-defined negation, Hegel's "schlechte Unendlichkeit". This exactly is one of Scheld's major grievances, namely that Paul Bäumer doesn't really represent anything. He's just there, and who here didn't find every single other character more interesting than Bäumer? I read somewhere that the panoramic viewpoint was commonly accepted as the least engaging, and so it is here: Paul Bäumer is just passing by.

>A biographer researching the German philosopher Hegel has uncovered a massive treasure trove of previously undocumented lectures that could change perceptions regarding one of the leading figures of modern western philosophy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/manuscript-treasure-trove-may-offer-fresh-understanding-of-hegel