Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit begins with his Anthropology and suggests that we can only understand spirit from the perspective of the specifically human form of life. Hegel's Anthropology develops the traditional idea that humans are essentially rational beings. However, the concept of a rational being is not understood here as a genus concept, but rather as a concept of a form of spiritual and embodied life. In this seminar, we will study Hegel's Anthropology together and its relation to his Philosophy of Nature. We will examine the significance of embodiment in Hegel’s Anthropology and explore the role of habit for an embodied spiritual life form. To this purpose, we will first agree on a general overview of the idea of embodiment and, towards the end of the seminar, discuss further topics relating to the question of the embodied and extended mind, as well as embodied agency.
