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kinda unrelated but can I just say, that reading Bergson's Time and Free Will was like a mind virus and I keep tying everything back to it? Whenever Rickert talks about an "individual" as opposed to a concept Bergson's "quality" involuntarily invades me

Uh oh. I feared the moment that he would encroach something I have actually read. He says in Marx's 1844 Manuscripts that Marx *agrees* with Proudhon's vision of communism as a stage which communism has to pass through before reaching higher communism. Praying his treatment of Capital is better

Might stop around here and move on

This guy really, really hates Germans lol

Finished part I. Not bad actually. I don't agree with him but it's good. Would not have got as much out of it if I hadn't read Feuerbach. Probably my favorite "young hegelian" so far. Can't wait to read Marx's infamous rebuttal

"All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come before us like free children of God, and cry, 'Here we are.'"

comfy book so far

Finished On The Freedom of Will. Schoppy is so much more anglo than any of the other German philosophers, he has some kind of Lockean mind virus. Also it's astonishing how much he misunderstands Hegel

Reading the appendix (Critique of Kant) first, then first chapter of On Vision, then WWR as per his req in the preface.

"Things are necessary only in relation to a ground; it's the principle of sufficient reason. There is no such thing as something absolutely necessary. Also btw my metalogical truths can have no deduction because they are absolutely necessary" well ok

talking about Schelling's naturalphilosophy,

"What is it, therefore, through which the Absolute distinguishes itself from nature? The Absolute is absolute subject-object, whereas mind is the subjective subject-object. Oh, what brilliance! And how surprising! Suddenly, we find ourselves on the standpoint of idealistic dualism"

ok I laughed

this has been probably the best book I've read since Maimon. It conveys a sense of real philosophy, the sense you get when you read Kant. It's very good. Highly recommend

On to the State. Marx's commentary/critique begins here, might read some of it along the way

Final chapter. Well, it took me 6 months to read, which I think was a little faster than PoS. Unfortunately its not made me into a Hegelian. I hoped that where PoS had been lacking for me this more rigorous exposition would make up for. I'll read Phil of RIght and then leave the rest of Hegel to Hegelians. After two years of this I really need to move on. Excited to read Feuerbach and Kierkegaards opinion on all this

The transition from having sex = cognition is one of the strangest ones in this whole book.

The final stretch

onto Objectivity