This week we confront the master of dialectics, Hegel, through one of his seminal works, Phenomenology of the Spirit. We begin with his famous prologue, which upends the Kantian distinction between phenomena and noumena for the concept of a human subject and culture in constant movement and transformation. What is the mechanism of this transformation? It is the resolution of contradiction between affirmative and negative propositions, as the mind processes history, reality, and language. The episode dives into the ideal categories that mediate Hegel's analysis of knowledge, being, and human development. Join us as we begin our journey into one of history's greatest philosophical minds.