/lit/ - Literature

>>18290664
Hegel

>>18220003
First find what program the OP was using to make the flowchart and just recreate it from scratch.That one has a lot of problems.

>>18204200
>How do I get into Hegel?
The more philosophy I read, the less I know how to answer to questions like these. Lately I have started reading lots of Meister Eckhart and lots of Renaissance philosophy (mostly Cusanus, Bruno, Boehme, Pico della Mirandola and Ficino) and now I am fully convinced that without these authors large swathes of Hegel's system are unintelligible. I had the same experience in the past, when I first got familiar with post-Kantian minor philosophers (Reinhold, Herder, Schiller, Jacobi, Humboldt, etc), when I got more familiar with Schellingian philosophy of nature, and when I got more familiar with medio- and neo-platonism. I wonder if it'll happen again when I'll get more familiar with scholastic philosophy. I'm getting the impression that to have a good grasp of Hegel's two major works (PoS and SoL) one has to have an EXCELLENT grasp on most of the history of philosophy, and that Hegel wrote those books expecting his readers to be already knowledgeable on these regards. Basically, those are books written for erudites.
>Should I start with his lectures, are those easier?
Definitely. Those are the books that made Hegel famous. They're surprisingly accessible, some of them can even be read by bright high schoolers. The easier ones are by far the Lectures on Aesthetics, on the Philosophy of History, and on the History of Philosophy, in this order (avoid for now the lectures on Philosophy of Religion and on Philosophy of Right). The prefaces and introductions are usually the hardest sections (since they concern methodology, and other very abstract philosophical issues), so don't get too discouraged if you're having trouble deciphering them: as soon as Hegel will start talking about concrete examples I'm sure you'll be able to follow him, and you'll probably find his various takes interesting and witty (or at least, this was the average reception of his lectures).

Jeune Afrique debunked this shit weeks ago.