Hegel’de Bilinç ve Özgürlük İlişkisi Bağlamında Karakter Filmi Üzerine Bir İnceleme
An Investigation On The Character Film In the Context of Relation Between Consciousness And Freedom In Hegel

Summary/Abstract: Human, who is described with the notion of “subject” in modern philosophy, differs from other beings with its reason. Because, thanks to its reason, human knows itself and builds the world based on this knowledge. Self-knowledge is functional in establishing existence and life. While a human, who controls its body with its reason, establishes its existence, it also acquires the freedom that helps it to continue the existence. There is a direct connection between the establishment of life, which is a process of being constructed and acquiring freedom. The free person establishes this life by acquiring self-consciousness. A human who tries to possess its body and everything that helps it to survive by using its reason is recognized by other people as long as it possesses. In this respect, survival is the same as recognition. There is a great struggle behind both. Here, G. Wilhelm Hegel who saw this struggle points out that human existence is established around the struggle for recognition in his famous book called Phenomenology of Spirit. This struggle marks the struggle of mind with other minds as much as it indicates the conflict of mind with itself and thus its existence. Human acquires its existence by struggle. The state of acquiring the being in question takes place in different stages through which consciousness overcomes. Each stage of consciousness points to the point at which human reaches greater freedom. Here, this study aims to consider the development of human existence, which is pointed out in the context of the establishment of consciousness and freedom in Hegel, together with the Character (Mark van Diem, 1997) film. It reveals how the film’s main character, Jacob, built his presence around his struggle with his cruel father and his mother, who lived a reclusive life. By claiming that each element and stage in Jacob’s life coincides with one of the stages of consciousness, self-consciousness and recognition that Hegel points to, the work explains these stages together with Jacob’s life. It shows how the life that progress through these stages opens to freedom.

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