For Hegel the unhappy consciousness (German: das unglückliche Bewußtsein) is associated with a stage in the history of the development of the freedom of self-consciousness. This stage of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit follows after the phase of the master-slave consciousness.
The three phases are: Stoicism, followed by scepticism or cynicism, followed by the ascetic unhappy consciousness.
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