Spirit, Sense-Object, Expulse, Communication

If, as Kant conceives it, Spirit is an "animating principle", then the first moment of a 'phenomenology' of Spirit is not a sense-object, as it is for Hegel, but what can be called an 'expulse', which connotes better than 'impulse' that Animation generates manifest motion.  However, the difference between Expulse and Sense-Object  is no mere expression of a difference of interpretation of one and the same datum.  Rather, it entails a correction of a fundamental falsification of immediate Experience that Hegel, following Descartes and Hume, repeats.  For, what is self-evidently given in each of those projects is not some private element, but a process of writing.  Accordingly, the first moment in such a phenomenology is an Expulse to Communicate.  Now, because he conceives Spirit as a trans-personal principle, Hegel can accept, more easily than his predecessors can, as the foundation of Experience, an event in which the existence of a plurality of subjects is implied.  However, because he also conceives Spirit as a principle of Knowledge, and not of Action, he cannot recognize that event as essentially an act of communication, initiated by an expulse.  He, thus, inverts Kant's concept of Spirit.