Joshua, Meyer: Zur Krise der menschlichen Selbsterkenntnis: Hegel und Menke über Bildung und Befreiung

_Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos_ 21 (38):183-204. 2024This text tries to investigate the relationship between Bildung and liberation. According to a certain Hegelianism Bildung is mainly characterized as the acquiring of a second nature or habit. This means that the subject of Bildung has to undergo a metaphysical transformation with the end of becoming a rational being. As second nature our rational capacities are supposed to be free and unfree at the same time. I want to argue that this