About the tragic in Hegel

Abstract

The aim is to demonstrate the Phenomenology of Spirit positions the tragic in the center of Hegelian dialetic. For this, we' ll analyse the develop of this though in Hegel. The tragic charater who belongs to the stage of unreflectin Sittlichkeit is one who have an immediate uncritical identity with the law. This because in the Greek city-state the man is not ready for reconciliation with the truly universal. Conversely, in the same epoch, the people who really grasp the full universality of spirit, the Jews, are those who feel the greatest alienation from the divine. But the universal must find some expression; and since the Gods are particular, the universal re-appears as the necessity of fate that even the Gods are subject. And Hegel explicits the inner tension and conflit of Greek society in the medium of Sophoclean tragedy.