Hegel explicitly engages Descartes as a necessary historical precursor in the Lectures on the History of Philosophy, treating the cogito as the first genuine expression of spirit's self-knowledge.
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A series of talks Hegel gave discussing how philosophical ideas developed over time and how later thinkers built on earlier ones.
Spirit's self-knowledge(what the cogito represents according to Hegel)
In Hegel's philosophy, the idea that human consciousness gradually becomes aware of itself and its own nature through history and experience.
cogito(Cartesian epistemology)
The first-person inference 'I think, therefore I am', characterized by extraordinary certainty and resistance to doubt, serving as an Archimedean turning point in Descartes' meditative inquiry
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.