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‘In less mystical-sounding terms, Hegel is simply saying that a thoroughgoing philosophical scepticism does not cling obtusely to what it imagines to be first and simplest- namely sense perception and its derivatives- but looks to the source from which such ‘knowledge’ takes its authority.’
It took me about half an hour just to read 6 pages, and this is the freaking commentary...
— May 08, 2020 11:10PM
It took me about half an hour just to read 6 pages, and this is the freaking commentary...
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‘Historically, Hegel’s ‘dialectic’ can be seen as a radicalization of Kant. Kant had introduced two fundamental notions in his account of the subject. One was the transcendental unity of apperception...[which states] that all of our experience relates back to the knowing subject; we are at the centre of our own phenomenal universes...in Hegel’s reading [this principle] becomes the continuity of Being.’
— Apr 11, 2020 12:15PM
r0b
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‘... the Phenomenology shows Hegel’s style at its most refractory. It is not that he was a particularly bad writer. He wrote a far more pleasing German than, say, Kant. But his publications were elliptical and allusive.’
...!
— Apr 11, 2020 12:13PM
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r0b
is on page 70 of 296
‘In its overall project, the Phenomenology undertakes what Schelling had attempted in the Philosophy of Transcendental Idealism: a systematic account of Being against the category of time.’
— Mar 25, 2020 02:44PM
r0b
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It’s unfortunate that this book doesn’t have a chapter on Fichte, but only deals with him indirectly in the chapter on Lukács.
— Mar 25, 2020 02:43PM
r0b
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‘The culmination of Kant’s aesthetics, and in a certain sense the culmination of his whole critical project, is the theory of genius.’
...Hegel on the horizon... :)
— Jul 16, 2019 11:48AM
...Hegel on the horizon... :)
r0b
is on page 68 of 296
‘...the most cultured community is also simultaneously the most ethical and has the highest sense of the aesthetic.’
— Jul 16, 2019 11:47AM
r0b
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Oh, and on page 40 (almost forgot!):
‘Human nature, so called, is not actually something we find in ‘nature’; it is not an object of experience. So it cannot be at the root of human conceptuality.’
— Jul 14, 2019 10:58PM
‘Human nature, so called, is not actually something we find in ‘nature’; it is not an object of experience. So it cannot be at the root of human conceptuality.’
r0b
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Re-reading the chapter on Kant (this time with pleasure! :)
‘Kant [says] that existence is not a ‘real predicate’. What does he mean by this? What he does not mean is that existence is not a predicate at all (as Scruton suggests, Kant, 53).’
— Jul 14, 2019 10:56PM
‘Kant [says] that existence is not a ‘real predicate’. What does he mean by this? What he does not mean is that existence is not a predicate at all (as Scruton suggests, Kant, 53).’
r0b
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‘...Kant offered his discussion of the faculty of ‘judgement’ [in the Critique of Judgement] as a means of bridging the ‘great chasm’ between the orders of understanding and reason. It was to be a ‘mediating element’ - the keystone, in fact, of the whole enterprise...it provided the conceptual model for the most important developments of German idealism...’
— Jul 05, 2019 01:09PM
r0b
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‘In Kant’s exposition, the only ‘subject’ is the purely formal one of our own subjectivity; there is never any underlying essence that sustains identity, whether in things or in persons.’
Yay Kant!
— Jun 30, 2019 08:25PM
Yay Kant!
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May 09, 2020 05:15PM
Haha, I plan to read Hegel's Phenomenology next year. I had read his " Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics", when i had barely started with reading philosophy. An intimidating experience, half of it didn't make sense, but I had the cop out excuse that i haven't read his Phenomenology yet. :D
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Part wrote: "Haha, I plan to read Hegel's Phenomenology next year. I had read his " Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics", when i had barely started with reading philosophy. An intimidating experience, half of i..."Hey, thanks for your comment. Yes, some (or a lot!) of this stuff can be quite the slog but worth the effort nevertheless...
Rob wrote: "Part wrote: "Haha, I plan to read Hegel's Phenomenology next year. I had read his " Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics", when i had barely started with reading philosophy. An intimidating experien..."Yup, that's why we persist. Atleast with Kant, all the complexity was inherent, he tried to simplify it as much as possible. Let's see what's the case with Hegel, I have read quite funny things about how he aspires to confuse people coz he can't convince them. Ofcourse most of that can just be opinion as it usually is.
Reading Hegel and following him up with Kierkegaard is something I am hopeful for next year :)
Good luck with your reading, Kant and Hegel at the same time! Love the updates, Thanks.
Part wrote: "Rob wrote: "Part wrote: "Haha, I plan to read Hegel's Phenomenology next year. I had read his " Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics", when i had barely started with reading philosophy. An intimidat..."Am also currently grappling with Fichte, who is possibly more abstruse than Hegel... I read some Kierkegaard several years ago, also difficult (and a very prolix writer!) but fascinating read.
Thanks again for your comments, happy reading!
