We've now entered a new - and final - section of the Spirit part of the work - Morality. This is the culmination of the previous three big sections of Spirit. The first one introduced and explored ethical life, leading eventually into a form a self-alienated Spirit - Culture.
The complexities of culture then led us into a new section, one that Hegel takes as unique - at that point in time - to the West, that of the Enlightenment. That in turn took us into the Absolute Freedom and Terror section, and that. . . finally into Morality.
This entire section will grapple with the conception of duty or obligation, and how its demands intersect with those of nature, happiness, and actuality.
There is actually a very short introductory set of paragraphs, the commentary on which is here:
And then, following those, we've got the first four lectures in the section itself

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