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Lordship & Bondage
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2,187 books2,576 followersGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.
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June 28, 2021
[boohoo, I read the first five chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit, understood about 60% of it, which if you've grappled with Hegel you'd know, is a BIG DEAL; and that should sustain me as my biggest flex for the next decade or so.]
A journey traced from the beginning, of a primitive consciousness to self-consciousness, and ultimately a formation of a human reality where subjectivity is always intersubjectivity; the whole of human history is the systematic evolution of the "I." Consciousness is always mediated, unlike the immediacy found in the Cartesian ego. And of course the legendary Master-Slave dialectic.
I couldn't help but notice the poetic eroticism when Hegel or Kojeve describes the intersubjective jiu-jitsu between the Master and the Slave; the inherent sensuality in how it is the Slave, and not the Master, who transforms the given World, the one who leads a "dialectical" or a revolutionary overcoming of the world, which is ultimately freeing and satisfying.
I can only be comfortable with my knowledge of something when I have absorbed it intuitively, when I can almost eat it and assimilate it in my bloodstream, and for that reason: I hate Hegel, because most of his system is intuitive and yet I cannot seem to grasp him intuitively which is agitating. The way he does away with the objectification of human beings though and the way he systematised the world as he saw it...beautiful.
My understanding of him is still very flimsy and elementary, but I've not yet been introduced to a philosopher whose remanants I see everywhere I look. For this reason, I'll come back to him again.
A journey traced from the beginning, of a primitive consciousness to self-consciousness, and ultimately a formation of a human reality where subjectivity is always intersubjectivity; the whole of human history is the systematic evolution of the "I." Consciousness is always mediated, unlike the immediacy found in the Cartesian ego. And of course the legendary Master-Slave dialectic.
I couldn't help but notice the poetic eroticism when Hegel or Kojeve describes the intersubjective jiu-jitsu between the Master and the Slave; the inherent sensuality in how it is the Slave, and not the Master, who transforms the given World, the one who leads a "dialectical" or a revolutionary overcoming of the world, which is ultimately freeing and satisfying.
I can only be comfortable with my knowledge of something when I have absorbed it intuitively, when I can almost eat it and assimilate it in my bloodstream, and for that reason: I hate Hegel, because most of his system is intuitive and yet I cannot seem to grasp him intuitively which is agitating. The way he does away with the objectification of human beings though and the way he systematised the world as he saw it...beautiful.
My understanding of him is still very flimsy and elementary, but I've not yet been introduced to a philosopher whose remanants I see everywhere I look. For this reason, I'll come back to him again.
April 1, 2024
Ive reread this like 10 times and I still don’t know what he’s talking about
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