/lit/ - Literature

>zeno.org

>Its silence stems only half from the triumph of its opponent,
>and half from the boredom and indifference
>which tend to result from the continual awakening of expectations
>through unfulfilled promises.
Hegel is saying that philosophy/science remains silent to the power of the spiritual argument because of two reasons. The first is the spiritual argument usually wins because of its strength. The second is because, the scientists have grown indifferent or bored to the spiritualist argument because Spirituality seems unattainable to them, and honestly, they'd rather be doing science anyway. This notion of unattainable-ness stems from the idea that the spiritualists are indeed lovely people, but they appear otherworldly and unscientific, and Hegel will go on to explain the phenomenology of this in the next several sentences.
>As for content, the other side make it easy enough for themselves at times
>to display a great expanse of it. They appropriate a lot of already familiar
>and well ordered material by focusing on rare and exotic instances
>they give the impression that they have hold of everything else
>which scientific knowledge had already embraced in its scope,
>and that they are also in command of such materials is as yet unordered.
Hegel now starts exploring the spiritualist side as they relate to the scientist side. He says that the spiritualists accept science but only up to a certain point, that point being where the science seemingly conflicts with their spirituality.

For instance, some spiritualists use the 'disco-ball argument' which states, "if we cannot expect natural scientific process to create a simple disco-ball, how are we ever supposed to believe that natural scientific process could create something as utterly complicated as life?" This is just one of many attempts the spiritualists have made to make themselves compatible with science in order to foster marriagble-ness, and Hegel is saying that these attempts at synthesis (or marriageable-ness) are the manifestations of the spiritualist's desire to participate in science while simultaneously avoiding conflicts with their spirituality.

Ok, I've decided to read the meme itself.

What is the best translation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit? What is the current consensus?

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>He doesn't instinctively comprehend Hegel
Never going to make it

Who do I have to read first as a preparation for the wonder that is his thought?