/lit/ - Literature

>>20570583
I had a mental breakdown when I first picked up a Hegel's book at my library and really gave it my all to try to understand him, even though I was nowhere near prepared for a task like that. It wasn't even Phenomenology or Science of Logic. It's been a few years since that and I finished Phenomenology of Spirit and it's my favorite book I've ever read. Almost prophetic in nature, it is the most beautiful breaking of boundaries of language that has ever or ever will be written. You will never truly understand it, but that's not really a bad thing. Every time you look at it once again it will be like listening to a complex and beautiful song on a better and better equipment each time.
Anyway, that mental breakdown set me down the path of reading (western) philosophy from the beginning, mostly with the goal to get back to Hegel, and I'd say that it shaped me as a person more than anything else in my life.

>He contacted his friends at universities in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin and found Berlin most attractive. He scheduled his lectures to coincide with those of the famous philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, whom Schopenhauer described as a "clumsy charlatan".
>Despite their differences and the arrogant request to schedule lectures at the same time as his own, Hegel still voted to accept Schopenhauer to the university. However, only five students turned up to Schopenhauer's lectures, and he dropped out of academia. A late essay, "On University Philosophy", expressed his resentment towards the work conducted in academies.

It's not even up for discussion. Hegel created the most complete and the most complex philosophical system to ever grace this planet. People here are dismissing him because he's too complex, and are praising Schopenhauer because he's quite simple and pushed women off stairs (inb4 HURR BASED).

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