/lit/ - Literature

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>but this whole thing where you act like reading his works is gonna brainwash you
The only reason his work is so long and why you need to "read Hegel" to get him is exactly that. His work of magic is specifically in convincing you to cast away reality as you know it, so you can accept his views instead.
That's why you can't just convince people into Hegelianism by providing his ideas in bite sized chunks that anyone can understand. That's why he wrote something like
>Philosophy is, by its very nature, something esoteric, neither made for the vulgar as it stands [für sich], nor capable of being got up to suit the vulgar taste; it only is philosophy in virtue of being directly opposed to the understanding and hence even more opposed to healthy common sense, under which label we understand the limitedness in space and time of a race of men
Half the purpose of his writings are to get you to abandon healthy common sense. That is his "brainwashing" and his "magic," as occultists would call it. It is a cult.

Schopy tells us to look at art so the will can rest for abit and we can chill the fuck out. So this is a form of escapism right? Nothing bad about it i guess but in 1800s there was no anime invented so is todays form of art and escapism not far superior? Would schopenhauer want me to watch anime?