/lit/ - Literature

>>13229875
The rational is the real.
The thing is.

Pure being is naught; pure negativity is simple coming-to-be, mediation, or the I existing for itself. Material substance is determinate thought, or Nous (simplicity). Therefore negativity is reflective turning into self, that is, self-moving self-sameness. The concept is the self-moving and self-distinguishing thought which is it's own inwardness and otherness. The otherness which defines the concept is the coming-to-be of the intelligibility of the concept, which is rationality.

Could someone summarize his philosophy for me?

>>11367086
>>11367074
>tfw someones philosophy isn't a science

Make way.

>>11128907
>links to an archived thread where the screen shot came from
>double down on your lies, pathetic.
>Sorry I still haven't read hegel
disgraceful

>>11086507
>reading Hegel without reading Descartes, Hume, Kant and Spinoza first

>>10845010
What isn't?
>Death, as we may call that unreality, is the most terrible thing, and to keep and hold fast what is dead demands the greatest force of all. Beauty, powerless and helpless, hates understanding, because the latter exacts from it what it cannot perform. But the life of mind is not one that shuns death, and keeps clear of destruction; it endures death and in death maintains its being. It only wins to its truth when it finds itself utterly torn asunder. It is this mighty power, not by being a positive which turns away from the negative, as when we say of anything it is nothing or it is false, and, being then done with it, pass off to something else: on the contrary, mind is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and dwelling with it. This dwelling beside it is the magic power that converts the negative into being. That power is just what we spoke of above as subject, which by giving determinateness a place in its substance, cancels abstract immediacy, i.e. immediacy which merely is, and, by so doing, becomes the true substance, becomes being or immediacy that does not have mediation outside it, but is this mediation itself.

>the part of Hegel's aesthetic lectures where he mocks trad lifestyle

>the idyll, in the modern sense of the word. In this sense it disregards all the deeper general interests of the spiritual and moral life and portrays mankind in its state of innocence. But in this context to live 'innocently' only means to know of nothing except eating and drinking, and indeed of none but very simple foods and drinks, e.g. the milk of goats and sheep, and, at a pinch, cows; vegetables, roots, acorns, fruit, cheese made from milk; bread, I suppose, is really post-idyllic, but meat must be allowed earlier because shepherds and shepherdesses will not have wished to sacrifice their sheep whole to the gods. Their occupation consists in tending their beloved flock the whole livelong day with their faithful dog, providing their food and drink, and all the time nursing and cherishing, with as much sentimentality as possible, such feelings as do not disturb this peaceful and contented life; i.e. in being pious and gentle in their own way, blowing on their shawms, scrannel-pipes, etc., singing in chorus, and especially in making love to one another with the greatest tenderness and innocence.

>Being has not vanished: but, firstly, Essence, as simple self−relation, is Being, and secondly as regards its one−sided characteristic of immediacy, Being is deposed to a mere negative, to a seeming or reflected light −− Essence accordingly is Being thus reflecting light into itself.

What did he mean by this?