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> In modern times the importance of the atomic theory is even more evident in political than in physical science. According to it, the will of individuals as such is the creative principle of the State: the attracting force is the special wants and inclinations of individuals; and the Universal, or the State itself, is the external nexus of a compact.

On that atomic theory or individualism (classical liberalism):

>This too is metaphysics; and metaphysics which, for its utter unintelligence, there would be sufficient reason to guard against.

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Metaphysical, spirit-realm believer and God-believer wizard Hegel is best Hegel

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Realize, little anon, that there is only ONE PHILOSOPHY and that the system of Hegel is none other than the system of Plato and they both wrote and taught the same thing under a different form appropriate to their culture. You are not at a level to understand right now but as you continue to think and grow and become a big grown-up philosopher one day you will come to see Hegel was right all along.

BASED Hegel

think SPECULATIVELY

>In teaching philosophy in the gymnasium the abstract form is, in the first instance, straightaway the chief concern. The young must first die to sight and hearing, must be torn away from concrete representations, must be withdrawn into the night of the soul and so learn to see on this new level, to hold fast and distinguish determinations.

>one learns to think abstractly by thinking abstractly.

>To learn to think speculatively, which is specified in the directive as the chief purpose of preparatory philosophical instruction, is thus surely to be seen as the necessary goal. Preparation for it is first abstract thinking and then dialectical thinking, and beyond that consists in attaining representations of speculative content.

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Hegel on the Critique of Pure Reason:

>Its study is made difficult by its diffuseness and prolixity, and by the peculiar terminology found in it. Nevertheless this diffuseness has one advantage, that inasmuch as the same thing is often repeated, the main points are kept before us, and those cannot easily be lost from view.