OF THE BEAUTIFUL. 51 



stimulating. They were edited after his death by one 

 of his most appreciative disciples, to whom we owe, inter 

 alia, a graphic and picturesque portraiture of Hegel as 

 an academic lecturer. 1 



In the general scheme of his philosophy, which was 33 . 

 divided into Logic, Philosophy of Nature, and Philosophy .Esthetics 



in Hegel's 



of Mind, ^Esthetics found a place in the last subsection system, 

 of the third and most important department, together 

 with the Philosophy of Eeligion and Philosophy proper. 

 The trichotomy or threefold rhythm of development 

 which was introduced in the first section as an abstract 

 formula, coinciding with the movement of human reason- 

 ing, was repeated in the different sections and subsections, 

 in which it assumed a more and more intelligible and 

 living appearance. Notably in the last section, in the 

 Philosophy of Mind, we have first to deal with the sub- 

 jective or individual mind (Anthropology, Phenomeno- 

 logy, and Psychology) ; secondly, with the objective or 

 collective rnind (Law, Morality, Civil Life, Culture, and 

 History); and lastly, with the Absolute mind, which 

 manifests itself in the regions of Art, Eeligion, and 

 Philosophy proper. In these three highest regions, each 

 of which constitutes, as it were, a " Divine worship in 

 the service of Truth," the Absolute or supreme Idea 

 which pervades everything i.e.,. the fundamental core 

 and kernel of reality rises to complete self-consciousness. 



1 The Lectures on "^Esthetics" 1820, 1823, 1826, and 1828. The 

 appeared as the 10th vol. (in three j graphic description of Hegel's per- 



parts) of Hegel's ' Works,' and were 

 edited by H. G. Hotho (1802-1873). 

 As he states in the Preface, the 

 lectures were delivered for the first 

 time at Heidelberg in the year 

 1818, and repeated at Berlin in 



sonality and academic teaching is 

 quoted by Caird in translation from 

 Hotho's ' Vorstudien fiir Leben und 

 Kunst ' ('Blackwood's Philosophical 

 Classics,' 1883, p. 97 sqq.). 



