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Commentators have hitherto analyzed the interrelation between Spinozan and Hegelian concepts, especially in works where Hegel directly mentions Spinoza (such as Logic and The Lectures on History of Philosophy). The present inquiry, however, is an attempt to undertake the harder task of studying Spinozan concepts of Ethics exactly at the juncture in Hegel''s philosophy where there is no trace of Spinoza, i.e. in Phenomenology of Spirit. A survey of works written in various languages shows that there is no book or article specifically and exclusively written on this subject; in this respect, the present inquiry is innovative.
After a short introduction to the reciprocity of Hegel''s works and Spinoza''s philosophy, the inquiry will bring out and examine some oppositional concepts from these two books (namely Ethics and Phenomenology of Spirit), such as Spinozan substance/Hegelian spirit, Spinozan mechanism/Hegelian organism, and Spinozan eternity/Hegelian historicity, and finally, it will reveal how Phenomenology of Spirit sublates Spinoza''s Ethics in its Hegelian sense of sublation.
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