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Mind is inherently universal, but in its limited form, as the minds of particular people, it is not aware of its universal nature- that is, particular people do not see themselves as all part of the one universal Mind. Hegel describes this as a situation in which Mind is alienated from itself-that is, people (who are manifestations of Mind)take other people (who are also manifestations of Mind)as something foreign, hostile, and external to themselves, whereas they are in fact all part of the same great whole
We can treat Universal Mind' as a collective term for all human minds. We can then rewrite the Phenomenology in terms of the path to human liberation The saga of Mind then becomes the saga of the human spirit
the inner core' was his account of Mind overcoming alienation, reinterpreted as an account of human self-consciousness freeing itself from the illusions that prevent it achieving self-understanding and freedom