Hegel conceives of human beings as both natural and spirited. On Robert Pippin's influential reading, we are natural by being ‘ontologically’ like other animals, but spirited through a ‘social-historical achievement’. I contest both the coherence of this reading and its fidelity to Hegel's texts. For Hegel the human being is the truth of the animal. This means that spirit's self-production is not, as Pippin claims, an achievement that an animal confers on itself, but the realization of what the human being is. I end by specifying Aristotelian features of Hegel's account whose neglect by Pippin can help explain what goes wrong in his reading, and provide the outlines of a reading that is both coherent and faithful to Hegel's texts.

黑格尔认为人是自然的和精神的。在罗伯特·皮平的有影响力的解读中，我们是自然的，因为我们像其他动物一样在“本体论上”，但通过“社会历史成就”而精神振奋。我质疑这种解读的连贯性及其对黑格尔文本的忠实度。在黑格尔看来，人是动物的真理。这意味着，精神的自我生产并不是像皮平所说的那样，是动物赋予自己的成就，而是对人类所是的认识。最后，我详细说明了黑格尔叙述的亚里士多德特征，皮平对这些特征的忽视有助于解释他的阅读中出了什么问题，并提供了一种既连贯又忠实于黑格尔文本的阅读大纲。