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Because the Absolute pill is the hardest of all pills to swallow - to gaze upon the totality of creation in its Immediate element is maddening. Only through arduous labour with the Negative does one become ready to consume the pill of pills. One most be willing to go through the dialectical process of Spirit in its entirety: to consume all the other pills, to let the Notions contained therein be played out to their conclusion and their inner contradictions thus revealed and overcome. Through this constant process of negation and sublation, Spirit marches towards the consciousness of its own freedom.

When one is finally ready to consume the pill, the phenomenology of Spirit is in doing so concluded. The subject finally sees itself within Substance, and comprehends that Substance IS in its essence Subject, seeing the reflection of the self within the world. In doing so, the Absolute pilled Subject exists in their fully actualized form: as Spirit both in-itself (an-sich) and for-itself (für-sich).

Is Hegel's system really presuppositionless?

Why should I find a dialectical argument rationally convincing?

>>10223786
>Why aren't you dressed up, Hegel?
>I'm dressed as the thing-in-itself.
>But you don't have a costume on.

Is there anything redeemable about Hegel?

>tfw realised - I mean truly realised - that there is no moral basis without God

>tfw can't decide whether to try to embrace "God" or to submit fully to nihilism

>tfw I am willing to decide this on the basis of an argument on a Scandinavian Pottery board, starting now

Because we are the negation of the negation

It feels like half the posts on /lit/ are from /pol/.
And when I say posts I mean shitposts.
What gives? Its not even subtle.

He really really isn't that difficult.
Aristotle and his boys are way harder imo.

>>8576491
No one wants to read that hack

>>8273175
Best post ITT
>When you can't discuss these things IRL because laypeople will never take seriously the idea that the effect of systems can change as they play themselves out
>Just a bit more time/once we implement this policy things will go back to normal

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>>8109303
I don't know much about either. The continental shit is based on a very long tradition of historical and social anaylsis, and tries to make sense of Kant's observations about the similatiires between rationalism and empiricism. Its easy to say that we can throw all that shit out the window and only focus on logic or linguistics or mathematics etc. but we all know that thats a tenuous base in which to build and analyse knowledge.

Does it matter a great deal whether or not I read philosophy chronologically?

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>>7991163

I don't get his works. I seriously don't. How the fuck do I understand Hegel?

Is German Idealism the biggest meme of the 19th century?