Status Updates From Hegel: una biografía

...’Hegel...was looking to make himself into a "popular philosopher" who was going to apply Kantian ideas in light of the British ideas he had picked up along the way.’

The idea that Hegel originally aspired to be a “popular philosopher” is hilarious! 😆

...Hegel attempted to fuse Kant's idea of a "religion of morality" with his own critique of the fragmentation of modem life inspired by his youthful readings of Garve, Herder, and Rousseau, and out of this he hoped to produce a "popular philosophy" that would bring about, as he had put it to Schelling, the "revolution in Germany" that would follow from the "application" of Kant's philosophy.

...servants not properly respectful of their masters, and other questionable sorts of people.

There were cries against the idea of Bildung; there were even suggestions that, with all the new "reading societies" springing up across what still counted as the Holy Roman Empire, a new disease, that of "reading addiction" (Lesesucht), was arising, an ailment which was believed likely to strike impressionable young stu­dents, loose women...