Hegelian phenomenology as second-order cybernetics and system theory

Abstract

Using the method of translation, we rethink the foundational principles of phenomenology, deconstructing the 1827 text Doctrine of Philosophical Propaedeutic, by German Idealist and Hegelian G. A. Gabler (a revision of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit). The selected chapters focus on phenomenology's core concepts and themes: Consciousness and its experience vis-a-vis the genesis of scientifically grounded knowledge (Section A); the dialectical interplay of subject and object (B-2-1); certainty and truth (B-2-2); as well as the Kantian phenomenon and noumenon (B-2-3). The accompanying commentary highlights the symmetries between phenomenology and system theory.