/lit/ - Literature

>>20865906
Nah, He was always an Emanation, he never died and never left us.

>>18842049
The great thing about Hegelian mysticism is that it is compatible with the physical sciences.

The problem for many physicalists is that they forget that their physical terms are just abstractions of mind. To be is to be known. The truth is the whole and the whole is the Absolute.

By that I don't mean translating it. I mean "repeating" the actual train of thought Hegel works out in the SoL. If, as the Preface indicates, you should be able to make an absolute beginning in philosophy by starting from the thought of indeterminate immediacy ("pure being") and following its own movement as the thinking of this thought draws it into contradiction - then because this beginning is absolute it should in principle be possible for anyone to "re-do" the entire dialectic from the start. If - as Hegel claims - the whole architectonic of the Science of Logic is bound together by strict necessity, then anyone who "does" the same thing as Hegel, who takes the same experiment in thinking (i.e. the "resolve to consider pure thought as such") should re-produce the Science of Logic, in the sense of working out the same series of movements (i.e. that the mere thought that there 'is' some kind of reality proves necessarily to entail that reality 'is' determinate, that it has essence and appearance, that it exists as concept, as Idea, as space, time, matter, nature, history, its own self-comprehension in a human mind) but in their own idiom, their own language. Wouldn't it be possible to overcome Hegel's infelicitous style of writing by re-doing the philosophical experiment in a modern linguistic register? Has anyone ever written something like that?

Why are the gnostics so reviled? Could it be they're onto something?