/lit/ - Literature

>>18842230
Oh, and the Absolute is God. I am that I am, das sein.

We shall summon it, insomuchas we shall come to intuit it as the Notion, which is not to say we shall immediately know it as knowledge or science. Rather, we know that we shall come to know if the Logos through Sophia, and that is the Concept, but in its sublation and sublation of the intuition of the Conceit we shall, rather than as we shall see know, come to be knowing the Logos, partaking in it from it, within ourselves.

>>18449187
The absolute (or the idea) is determinate and self-mediated, which is to say that it expresses itself and comes to be defined through this expression. What is so radical about Hegel is that he abandons traditional metaphysics which always insists on a substrate (that upon which everything ultimately depends, a residue of which is found in Kant as the thing in itself) and instead argues for an ungrounded, self-mediated system of systems. At one point he compares it a circle of circles (the system as a whole is the larger circle while each domain (phenomenology, nature, art, logic, etc) is a minor circle). This is why in his time he was accused of pantheism and why today his philosophy is regarded as being atheist.