The Way of the Impure. On the Beautiful Soul, Evil, and… | by Simone A. Medina Polo | Medium

[This essay is the fourth in a 5-part series of short-writings that came from Todd McGowan’s 2022 Seminar on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.] In the “Spirit” section of the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel arrives at the figure of the beautiful soul through the concerns that set the stage morality’s contradiction between pure duty and actuality — in other words, the moral view of the world between the absoluteness of morality and the absoluteness of nature (Hegel, 1977, 365). In fact, Hegel’s restaging of Kantian morality goes as far as calling it an antinomy of morality of the claim that there is a moral consciousness and that there is none (Hegel, 1977, 383). At the crux of Hegel’s critique of Kant is that Kant resists nature and actuality as a necessary essence of morality — furthermore, Kant is not serious about his own claims in that pure duty cannot be accomplished without becoming impure, thus its actualization is deferred continuously as a pure duty without satisfying the impera

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