/lit/ - Literature

>>22560988
If you're just going to keep repeating this retarded talking point about Hegel's works being fucking magic spells or some shit I'm not going to keep replying. Criticize his refutation of the noumena-phenomena gap or pick the low-hanging fruit and go after his views of politics or history, highlight specific passages in which you see a logical flaw, do something of substance. If all you ever do is bitch and moan about how our fragile little minds are just too weak to withstand the onslaught which the Phenomenology or the Encyclopedia assaults them with or whatever the fuck then just don't even bother discussing philosophy at all. We could be having an interesting discussion here or talking about people who were influenced by Hegel in some way, like, for example, Peirce (arguably one of the greatest thinkers of the past 250 years), but nooooo, apparently Hegel is so special and magical that his system of thinking just destroys your capacity for reason as soon as you touch it.
I'm willing to bet that if I spammed Kant quotes like pic related everywhere and made shitty memes about the Critiques totally melting your sense of identity through their sheer powers of German autism and posted bad photoshops of Kant with demons and sigils and shit you would act exactly the same way about him.

>>12212048

This doesn't identify what's unique about the Transcendental Deduction - the content of the summary and quote you gave are repeated many times before the Transcendental Deduction, and many times after. What isn't repeated so much outside of the Transcendental Deduction is that the necessary conditions for consciousness *of one's self* are the same necessary conditions as those retired for consciousness *of an external object* known by my self.

Thus my knowledge of such objects, and the universe they interact in, is as secure and intimate to me as my own identity as a thinking consciousness. The unified-ness of external objects along with the continuity of natural laws, and the unified-ness of my self as a single knowing "I, me" along with the continuity of the laws of thinking, are *the same* unified-ness and continuity. I think *this* is the crux of the Transcendental Deduction.

You cannot have consciousness of objects except as simultaneous with consciousness of self. Consciousness just *is* consciousness-of-self-and-objects. Knower and known, subject and object, are inseparably bound together, mutually necessary.